Thinking Architecturally Quotes

“Rich Hickey once said programmers know the benefits of everything and the tradeoffs of nothing...an approach that can lead a project down a path of frustra‐ ted developers and unhappy customers. But as an architect you must consider the tradeoffs of every new library, language, pattern, or approach and quickly make decisions often with incomplete information.”
― Nathaniel Schutta, Thinking Architecturally

“To be honest, you will miss almost everything that gets published.”
― Nathaniel Schutta, Thinking Architecturally

“I thought I’d “missed the wave” of some technology or another. What I didn’t appreciate at the time is that new technologies are a lot like buses—one comes every 15 minutes or so. As architects, we have to remember that we cannot stop change, but we can manage it.”
― Nathaniel Schutta, Thinking Architecturally