"As developers there are two ways we fail: we build the thing wrong, or we build the wrong thing." – Steve Smith
"One way to minimize the amount of bugs in an application is to maximize the number of lines of code that aren’t written."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." — Albert Einstein
"Unnecessary creativity is the bane of software development. Complexity kills scaling and maintainability."
A software design pattern is a general, reusable solution... — Wikipedia Don’t try to find solutions to problems you don’t have!
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not doing anything.” — John Wooden
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” — Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"All architecture is design but not all design is architecture. Architecture represents the significant design decisions that shape a system, where significant is measured by cost of change." — Grady Booch
"Architecture is a hypothesis, that needs to be proven by implementation and measurement." — Tom Gilb
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." — Hans Hofmann
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea." — Émile-Auguste Chartier
"If you can’t think of three things that might go wrong with your plans, then there’s something wrong with your thinking." — Jerry Weinberg