· Charlie Holland · Architecture
Nature Spent 60 Million Years Removing Complexity. We Add It Every Quarter.
There's a lump of granite off the Ayrshire coast that used to be a volcano. Sixty million years of weather wore it down to the one part hard enough to matter, and we've made the world's curling stones out of it ever since. Software does the opposite. Nothing ever erodes, every layer you've ever shipped is still down there needing somebody to mind it, and you pay for all of it in headcount and meetings. Oh, Fred Brooks, save us all.
