Eben Hewitt > Quotes

“There are two jobs in the world that people want to do the most while knowing the least about: architect and strategist”
― Eben Hewitt

“In 1966, Derrida delivered a paper entitled “Structure Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” (which is a wonderful paper, right up there with the original DynamoDB paper and the Page Rank algorithm paper).”
― Eben Hewitt, Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy

“The roles that are ultimately valued at an organization tend to be the people who do what the boss did. If the boss used to be a salesperson or deal-maker, that’s who she’ll recognize, side with, empathize with, reward, understand, and listen to most.”
― Eben Hewitt, Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy

“I borrow from the world of philosophy, having studied and fallen in love with it in graduate school, and finding its rigors and explosive power very helpful in my 20-year career in tech.”
― Eben Hewitt, Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy

“With this joke, Wallace reminds us that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones hardest to see, that we can lock ourselves in mental models so complete that we don’t even know we’re imprisoned by them.”
― Eben Hewitt, Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy

“Overindexing on standardization for its own sake to the detriment of customers is missing the point at best and an abuse of power at worst.”
― Eben Hewitt, Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy

“There are two jobs in the world that people want to do the most while knowing the least about: architect and strategist.”
― Eben Hewitt, Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy

“prescribed”
― Eben Hewitt, Semantic Software Design: A New Theory and Practical Guide for Modern Architects

“http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/la....”
― Eben Hewitt, Cassandra: The Definitive Guide

“Imagine a turkey who is an inductive reasoner. He is fed without fail every morning of his life for years, and reasonably concludes this will continue to the point of never thinking of it, until Thanksgiving morning when his throat is cut.”
― Eben Hewitt, Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy

“One cannot be successful as an architect without thinking of not only what to do, but how to get it done within an organization, which requires knowing why it should matter to someone who isn’t a technologist.”
― Eben Hewitt, Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy

“Any technology strategy is, in a sense, a request to spend millions of dollars of someone else’s money. If you think of your work as a technology strategist in this way, you’ll do it differently. By which I mean better.”
― Eben Hewitt, Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy

“... if you think your data is clean, you haven’t looked at it hard enough.”
― Eben Hewitt

“One of my favorite books, and one that changed how I think about software and the evolution of ideas, was A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (Oxford University Press).”
― Eben Hewitt, Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy