Architecture Quote by Melvyn Conway

“Conway's Law predicts: "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."[1] Conway goes…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.”

— Chris Sims

“If there are n workers on a project, there are (n2–n)/2 interfaces across which there may be communication, and there are potentially almost 2n…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

— Jimenez Lai

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

— Bill Gates

A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of interacting forces.…

— Albert Low

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know…

— Ben Horowitz

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

— Steve Jobs

“What is an organization actually, even in organization theory, even in the most classical sense in management, if not a serial redescription which starts…

— Bruno Latour

“You can contrast the system in nature with a system in a human-built organization like a corporation. Hardly anything happens to benefit an organization…

— Bill Nye

Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.

— Theodore Levitt