Helping myself is even harder than helping others. - Gerald Weinberg

The general systems movement has taken up the task of helping scientists unravel complexity, technologists to master it, and others to learn to live with it.

If the software doesn't have to work, you can always meet any other requirement.

Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.