The context of the quote was building the Obamacare web site, healthcare.gov, one which had many public failures including missed deadlines, cost overruns, and

The context of the quote was building the Obamacare web site, healthcare.gov, one which had many public failures including missed deadlines, cost overruns, and poor performance. My initial statement could have more simply stated that Mr. Thiel's statement contains a false analogy fallacy. Building an atomic bomb is not comparable to building a complex website for the simple reason that success of the bomb is decided by the forces of nature, which are absolute, whereas the success of a website is determined in part by the responses of humans, who act irrationally and are subject to various whims.