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Robert Heinrich • Modeling and Simulating Software Architectures: The Palladio Approach
Alexander is inspired by how design occurs in the natural world. "Things that are good have a certain kind of structure," he told me. "You can't get that structure except dynamically. Period. In nature you've got continuous very-small-feedback-loop adaptation going on, which is why things get to be harmonious. That's why they have the qualities tha... See more
Tomas Petricek • On architecture, urban planning and software construction
Simplicity is elegant.
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system”. — John Gall (1975)
Richard • From fragments you can build a greater whole
A well-designed product isn’t well designed if the process needed to manufacture it is unrealistic or uneconomical.
Matthew Frederick • 101 Things I Learned® in Engineering School
the whole seems to take on a life of its own, almost dissociated from the specific characteristics of its individual building blocks.
Geoffrey West • Scale
Design Factoring
Löwy Juval • Righting Software
choose a problem which has been tackled before, with little or no success. This ensures that a systemic dynamic is at play.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Evolution continuously builds on an enormous chain of frozen accidents.