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Comment author: RichardKennaway 01 April 2010 10:41:27PM 9 points [-]

Gall's Law:

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.

John Gall, "Systemantics"

Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 02 April 2010 06:02:21PM 6 points [-]

The "inverse proposition" given is actually the contrapositive of (i.e. is equivalent to) the original statement.

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