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by davegauer 1478 days ago
There's this great quote at the beginning of the chapter I'm currently reading in the book _Designing Data-Intensive Applications_:

> "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work."

--John Gall, Systemantics (1975)