Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan....Eliel Saarinen

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.... Douglas Adams


There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.....C. A. R. Hoare

The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is....Anon 

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