Managing Software for Growth: Without Fear, Control, and the Manufacturing Mindset

Dim Bulbs

In a sense, you and I will be ignorant forever. I don't mean that in a flippant way. I mean that our knowledge is limited, and probably will be forever. We can increase our knowledge and understanding to a point, but there's a practical limit. We can't know everything. That means we can't anticipate everything. And that means we can't act with absolute intelligence right now.

This is true whenever the agents in a CAS are people. We can't predict accurately very far in advance because in the software world, we should have learned this lesson by now. Somebody once asked J. P. Morgan to predict the stock market. He replied, “It will fluctuate.” Not quite as helpful as his petitioner had hoped, perhaps, but honest. That's about as good ...