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JoelSpolsky

SoftwareArchitecture
PrematureOptimization
ExtremeProgramming

ProgrammersAreLazy

When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all.

These are the people I call Architecture Astronauts. It's very hard to get them to write code or design programs, because they won't stop thinking about Architecture. They're astronauts because they are above the oxygen level, I don't know how they're breathing. They tend to work for really big companies that can afford to have lots of unproductive people with really advanced degrees that don't contribute to the bottom line.

• http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html --Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
  
  
• http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2005/06/08/further_greasemonkey
• http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000165.html
  • http://www.baus.net/doersandtalkers.html --Talkers and Doers

A UML diagram can't push 500 pages per minute through a RIP.

If I think about something like ArchitectureAstronauts, I also think about PrematureOptimization.

• Architekturastronauten

Don’t blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for ‘the average programmer’, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner. [1]