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When the rate of change increases to the point that real time required to assimilate change exceeds the time in with change must be manifest, the enterprise is going to find itself in deep yogurt.

— John Zachman Zachman (1994)

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Soon, the enterprise of the information age will find itself immobilized if it does not have the ability to tap the information resources within and without its boundaries.

Decentralization without structure is chaos.

p. 276 cited in: Robert Mylls (1994)

There is a set of architectural representations produced over the process of building a complex engineering product representing the different perspectives of the different participants.

p. 283. cited in: Stephen L. Montgomery (1994)

To keep the business from disintegrating, the concept of information systems architecture is becoming less of an option and more of a necessity

With increasing size and complexity of the implementations of information systems, it is necessary to use some logical construct (or architecture) for defining and controlling the interfaces and the integration of all of the components of the system.

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

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To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson The Idler (1758)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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