Decentralization without structure is chaos. — John Zachman

"It is not adequate merely to produce running code. In the long term, enterprise value lies in the models themselves. They have intrinsic value in their own right, as they constitute the baseline for managing change"

"A framework as it applies to enterprises is simply a logical structure for classifying and organising the descriptive representations of an enterprise that are significant to the management of the enterprise as well as to the development of the enterprises system [with the aim of] rationalising the carious concepts and specifications in order to provide for clarity of professional communication, to allow for improving and integrating development methodologies and tools, and to establish credibility and confidence in the investment of systems resources."

"(Enterprise Architecture is) the set of descriptive representations (i.e., models) that are relevant for describing an Enterprise such that it can be produced to managements requirements (quality) and maintained over the period of its useful life."

"The analytical approach employed by both BSP and BISC is "top down". The implications of the words "top down" are multiple and varied, and all apply to these analysis. For instance:"

"There is a set of architectural representations produced over the process of building a complex engineering product representing the different perspectives of the different participants."

"[In Mr. Zachmans view] the architects drawings [represent] a transcription of the owners perceptual requirements."