We Could Write Nearly Perfect Software but We Choose Not To

How about "We Could Write Nearly Perfect Software, but We Don't Have NASA's Budget or Well-Scoped Projects"?

> Well-Scoped Projects

This is a big part imho, in many ways engineering type stuff is easier because you know exactly (pretty well) what you have to do, in business systems, its a lot fluffier.

> Code Review Performed by a Separate Team

It's a very good suggestion that intuitively feels right but I shudder at the extra work load and the distraction that this can be.

Yeah. We could write much less nearly perfect software, but we choose to write much more somewhat flawed software.

Humans doing anything perfect consistently is against our nature