"Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery IMHO, it takes technical

"Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery IMHO, it takes technical and personal maturity to come to the conclusion above. Good architecture (or software or dev process or anything) should only have/contain the simplest things that are necessary.