- Simple thing should be simple, complex things should be possible - Alan Kay
- The Pit of Success - make it hard to do things the hard way - Rico Mariani (on library/framework design)
- When we are writing tests, we should stay focussed on testing rather than the coding of the tests - Gerard Meszaros
- An architect’s value is inversely proportional to the number of decisions he or she makes - Martin Fowler "Who needs an architect?"