> "...but I do want to underscore a really important point: almost everything in software is a belief - it is something we have experience about, it is something we have opinions on, but it's not something we have hard data on. In most cases, we just don't know. But we can find out. We find out through..."

This seems applicable to everything, almost, in this whole experiment humans have going on here on planet earth, it just doesn't seem like it. To see it, you have to have (at least) the ability and willingness to look.