A fool with a tool is still a fool.

- Gartner

Abstractions connect, but are abstract, concretisations make things real, but lead to separation. EA is about balancing the two, in line with business-purpose.

- Tom Graves

I am a busy busy bee flying between lots of flowers - I try to pollinate them.

- Nic Harvard

EA's role is to ensure that the metaphoric structural-plates [silos, systems] can move when they need to move, because if they do get stuck, they will tear the place apart when they finally break free.

- Tom Graves

EA is the oil that lubricates the enterprise allowing all parts to function well. Without it, organisations can seize.

- Kevin Lee Smith

Let’s not try to find logic in politics and religion.

- Jayesh Nazre (becasue we don't know where it came from)

I eat biscuits and drink tea and talk to people.

- Nic Harvard

Our professional duty is to speak truth to power.

- Ian Glossop

Every Organisation is perfectly designed to get the results they are getting.

- Tim Kight

You always have EA, it is either good, bad or ugly...

but, if you make the commitment to quality EA we will be able to...

see ourselves more clearly, improve our efficiency, eliminate a lot of redundancy, understand our market and customers better, and make more profit as a result..

- Skip Boettger

If an enterprise architect and an IT architect were time-transported back to the year 1900, an enterprise architect could perform their EA function with equal effectiveness as they do today, and the IT architect would have no function (even if they were called an EA :-)

- Kirk Rheinlander