It's not nearly as pithy, but I think that this line from "Big Ball of Mud" captured something essential: > "Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that

It's not nearly as pithy, but I think that this line from "Big Ball of Mud" captured something essential: > "Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture." http://laputan.org/mud/mud.html#Forces http://laputan.org/mud/mud.html#Forces