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All architecture is design but not all design is architecture. Architecture represents the significant design decisions that shape a system, where significant is measured by cost of change.

— Grady Booch

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The entire history of software engineering is that of the rise in levels of abstraction.

Good people with a good process will outperform good people with no process every time.

Object Solutions: Managing the Object-Oriented Project (1996)

Perhaps the greatest strength of an object-oriented approach to development is that it offers a mechanism that captures a model of the real world.

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The class Dog is functionally cohesive if its semantics embrace the behavior of a dog, the whole dog, and nothing but the dog.

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

An operation is some action one object performs upon another in order to elicit a reaction.

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

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