Goals of an Architecture:
1. utilitas (Anforderungserfüllung)
2. firmitas (Änderungsrobustheit)
3. venustas (Schönheit)
(Encyclopeadia Britannica)
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning."
(Robert Cringley)
"In der Informatik geht es genauso wenig um Computer wie in der Astronomie um Teleskope."
(Edsger Dijkstra)
"Keep everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
(Albert Einstein)
"Each one of us has, somewhere in his heart, the dream to make a living world, a universe. Those of us who have been trained as architects have this desire perhaps at the very center of our lives: that one day, somewhere, somehow, we shall build one building which is wonderful, beautiful, breathtaking, a place where people can walk and dream for centuries."
(Christopher Alexander)
"Alles Große in unserer Welt entsteht nur, weil jemand mehr tut, als er muss."
(Hermann Gmeiner)
"Plan for the work and work for the plan."
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"In real life there is no undo! :-)"
(Roger Zacharias)
"J2EE development remains incredible complex, which keeps it out of the hands of everyone but the most skilled and expensive developers."
(Tod Nilson)
"E-Business means when your server is down, you´re out of business."
(Robert M. Stephenson)
"The entire history of software engineering is that of the rise in levels of abstraction."
(Grady Booch)
"Don´t type the code ... you will make mistakes ... generate the code from your model!"
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"Have an architecture that makes sense before you write 3.5 million lines of code."
(Patrick Naugton)
"Technology of a sufficiently advanced level will be indistinguishable from magic."
(Arthur C. Clarke)
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
(Andrew Gide)
"Computers are useless - they can only give you answers."
(Pablo Picasso)
"Es ist nicht gesagt, dass es besser wird, wenn es anders wird. Wenn es aber besser werden soll, muss es anders werden."
(G. C. Lichtenberg)
"Das ist eben nichts bewunderungswürdiges, man darf nur die rechten Tasten zu rechter Zeit treffen, so spielt das Instrument selbst."
(Johann Sebastian Bach)
"Only those who are asleep make no mistakes!"
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"Architects must work with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground."
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Ein Softwareprodukt besteht aus der Summe aller Konzeptdokumente, Entwurfsdokumente, Source-Dateien, Datenbankschemen, Testobjekte, Testfälle und Testdokumente.“ [sowie Installationsroutinen, Support-Werkzeugen, etc.]
(Harry M Sneed, Stefan Jungmayr)
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise their clients to plant vines."
(Frank Lloyd Wright)
"The person who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
(chinesisches Sprichwort)
"Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise lösen, mit der sie entstanden sind."
(A. Einstein)
"If you can‘t explain it in five minutes, either you don‘t understand it or it doesn‘t work."
(Mark W. Maier & Eberhardt Rechtin)
"Perfektion erreicht man nicht etwa dann, wenn sich nichts mehr hinzufügen lässt, sondern dann, wenn sich nichts mehr entfernen lässt."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
"The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting on the nothing you are doing."
(Cohn´s Law)
"An idea without execution is a hobby."
(Phil McKinney)