No one could blame The Great Master Lea for his use of the fat fingers technique, nor could any one consider his art to be of the most delicate sort. However his work still instilled some kind of peace in the mind of many. Earlier today his was a splendid morning at the foot of his mountain top. Much to his surprise more than one person attended the lecture on the whole of everything and nothing where one of the students in a moment of terror forgotten found the courage to address the Great Master with a question. This is what he had asked: “Oh great master Lea, How do we know when the architecture building blocks are of the right size?” The great master Lea looked at the student then turned his head towards the sky and said: “When each part in itself provide no value”
An epic tale on Enterprise Architecture and Extreme Abstraction
2009-10-29 by Jörgen Dahlberg
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