A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
This might lead us to contemplate the most terrifying and unthinkable proposition yet, not named anywhere else on this thread—that, perhaps, Stephen Wolfram was right!
Gall’s law:
This might lead us to contemplate the most terrifying and unthinkable proposition yet, not named anywhere else on this thread—that, perhaps, Stephen Wolfram was right!