No silver bullet

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…progress is one of the biggest problems that we are up to. As the costs of storage and CPU cycles become insignificant relative to personnel costs, the hardware terms nearly drop out of the equation of trade-offs in software design. Thus, the human challenges of managing software's complexity - presenting a coherent interface to the user, and co-ordinating the efforts of the development team - remain formidable for developers of today's big systems. Word Count: 1735