How do you learn a volume from a single statement? It's a good thing to think about: design up front is a tool for increasing quality. But the whole field of agile design is questioning the universality of that. The "volumes" are filled with all of the little things that tell you what is worth thinking about and what isn't. They contain many more statements on the subject.
At the risk of going off-topic; every new/kinda-new/wish they were new engineer can learn volumes from that single statement.