This is why space shuttles blow up. Why Titanics sink, dams collapse, power grids shut down, and stock exchanges melt down. It’s not because of a lack in the quality of the people or the software, it’s because of the complexity of the system. Fundamentally, if you got it right, someone will build a better system on yours that is 99% right, and reliant on yours 101%. And the next person will layer their opus magnum over that great work and get that 98% right… and so it goes on until the mother of all meltdowns occur.
Reminds me of Joel Spolsky’s Law of Leaky Abstractions
