Exactly. I think Dijkstra was off on this one. Simplicity may be a prerequisite for a software engineer's sanity but there's no natural law that simple is relia

Exactly. I think Dijkstra was off on this one. Simplicity may be a prerequisite for a software engineer's sanity but there's no natural law that simple is reliable. If anything, nature trends towards highly interconnected, distributed systems with plenty of redundancy - just like the internet.