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“I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.”
― Helena Bonham Carter

“If your customer willingly and knowingly doesn't care about certain important things that your customer's customer cares about—as happens from time to time—consider stepping away from the project.”
― Richard Monson-Haefel, 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know

“Design is a discovery process, as we implement we discover new information, often impossible to know up front. By accepting that design is an ongoing and empirical process in a forever changing world, we learn that the design process must be flexible and ongoing too. Clinging onto your original designs and trying to force them through is only going to end up with one result so you need to learn to understand that it will never look like that.”
― Richard Monson-Haefel, 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know

“As you work in requirements meetings to design software, pretend that your customer is not your customer. It turns out that this is a very easy thing to do, because it is true. Your customer is not your customer. Your customer‘s customer is your customer. If your customer's customer wins, your customer wins. Which means you win.”
― Richard Monson-Haefel, 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know