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I was reading the book "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" by Richard Feynman, where he describes being on the committee investigating the loss of the Challenger Space Shuttle.[1]

What I found interesting was his take on the software system:

"To summarize then, the computer software checking system and attitude is of the highest quality."

At first I thought, "wow, software is getting a pass."

But then mulling it over, I realized that software is almost easy compared to the unpredictability, unreliability and untameable stubbornness of the physical world.

[1] https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roge...