There is no simple answers for enterprise integration. In our opinion, anyone who claims that integration is easy must be incredibly smart [...], incredibly ignorant [...], or have a financial interest in making you believe that integration is easy.

Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf

I don’t try to understand computers. I try to understand the programs.

Barbara Liskov

The supreme art of software is to build a system without writing much code.

Grady Booch

Complexity in software is the result of inherent domain complexity (essential) mixing with technical complexity (accidental).

Scott Millet, "The Anatomy of Domain-driven Design"

Programing is an act of design.

Einar Landre

A system’s software architecture is the set of significant design decisions about how the software is organized to promote desired quality attributes and other properties.

Michael Keeling, "Design It"

The software architecture of a system is the set of structures needed to reason about the system, which comprise software elements, relations among them, and properties of both

Rick Kazman, Paul Clements, Len Bass "Software Architecture in Practice"

The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We’ve always done it this way."

Grace Hopper

Hopefully most engineers recognize that it is better to be one part of a successful project than the critical part of a failed project.

Brian Fitzpatrick

Programming is hard. Software engineering is even harder.

Brian Fitzpatrick