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More importantly, notice the specific claim that Brooks is making. He asserts that the unreliability of a program comes from the difficulty of enumerating and/or understanding all the possible states of the program. This is an often repeated claim in the software engineering community but it is fallacious nonetheless. It overlooks the fact that it is equally difficult to enumerate all the possible states of a complex hardware system. This is especially true if one considers that most such systems consist of many integrated circuits that interact with one another in very complex ways. Yet, in spite of this difficulty, hardware systems are orders of magnitude more robust than software systems (see the COSA Reliability Principle for more on this subject).