Quote of the Week – Complexity
“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated” – Poul Anderson
I thought that this quote was extremely insightful given the changes in the industry and the constant attempts by many to describe the changes as orderly and without unintended consequences. I have spent a great deal of time recently looking at structural and technology change in telecoms and IT and the one conclusion I can make is that in all of these activities, the corner cases and hidden complexities are greater than expected.
June 24th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
I think i’ve seen this somewhere before…but it’s not bad at all
July 29th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
My Comp Sci professor was fond of saying any problem can be solved with an additional level of indirection