William Blair

“Architecture must be carefully distinguished from implementation. As Blaauw has said, "Where architecture tells what happens, implementation tells how it is made to happen.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean. He knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully and with great restraint.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“Reducing the role conflict. The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build; they have very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing, and testing them hard. Software systems have orders of magnitude more states than computers do. Likewise, a scaling-up of a software entity is not merely a repetition of the same elements in larger size; it is necessarily an increase in the number of different elements. In most cases, the elements interact with each other in some nonlinear fashion, and the complexity of the whole increases much more than linearly. The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering