Software seems like something we should be able to reason about, yet the reality is that it's often too complex. Since we don't know how it works, we measure it and experiment on it as if we are trying to discover properties of the natural world

— Adrienne Porter Felt (@__apf__) January 28, 2019

This is what I mean by “technology as nature.” It’s taken many years for other people to get to where I was decades ago. And where Natalie Merchant was in 1982, as she coined the phrase.