"It is the generalist who needs to captain the ship as only he or she can understand enough of the whole to bring coherence, order, beauty and efficiency to bear. In many ways, the architect is the last great generalist position.
"It is the skills of the synthesizer, of the individual who can see the whole picture, that is most needed in this current paradigm to make the scale of changes necessary." [Jason McLennan, Zugenruhe: The Inner Migration to Environmental Change]