"All software is discovered and not invented." Though this depends on your definition of "discover" and "invent", I would be inclined to disagree. I personally

"All software is discovered and not invented." Though this depends on your definition of "discover" and "invent", I would be inclined to disagree. I personally find that the process of writing software has more in common with engineering that mathematics. Another argument: 'x was discovered', in some sense, implies that x could likely have been discovered by another intelligent being in another time and place. 'x was invented' implies that such was unlikely. Though I would agree that algorithms are discovered (intelligent alien races are as likely to know quicksort as they are relativity and calculus), I don't agree that complex software systems are discovered.