A lot of systems actually break the laws of physics. - Joe Armstrong

The API we use in programming languages are not adequate for describing the order in which we can perform the API calls. They are basically useless.

I do not think we can build systems that are large with large components.

It's going to fail your project if you take the easy bits first, deliberately. Because you can't solve the difficult bit, your project will fail late than failing early and your company will lose lots of money.