Software Architecture

 [AN ARCHITECTURAL DECISION IS]

THOSE DECISIONS WHICH AFFECT THE STRUCTURE, NON-FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, DEPENDENCIES, INTERFACES, OR CONSTRUCTION THECHNOLOGY

- Michael Nygard, Documenting Architecture Decisions (2011)

YOU THINK THAT BECAUSE YOU UNDERSTAND "ONE" THAT YOU MUST THERERFORE UNDERSTAND "TWO" BECAUSE ONE AND ONE MAKE TWO. BUT YOU FORGET THAT YOU MUST ALSO UNDERSTAND "AND".

- Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems