John A Zachman, Pioneer of enterprise architecture and originator of the "Zachman Framework".
A quote in
the preface of his book:
"If you get really honest and search all of history, seven
thousand years of known history of humankind, to find out how humanity has
learned to cope with two things, complexity and change, there is one game in
town: ARCHITECTURE.
If it (whatever it is) gets so complex you can’t remember everything
all at one time, you have to write it down …
ARCHITECTURE. Then if you want to change it (whatever it is), you go to
what you wrote down … ARCHITECTURE.
How do you think they build hundred-story buildings or Boeing
747’s, or IBM supercomputers … or even simple things like a one-bedroom house
or a Piper Cub or the PC on your desk?
Somebody had to write it down … at excruciating levels of
detail … ARCHITECTURE. Now, if you want to change any of those things (with
minimum time, disruption, and cost), how do you change them? You go to what you
wrote down … ARCHITECTURE. The key to complexity and change is ARCHITECTURE."
I'm just thinking about it...
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