> Those two things cannot be true simultaneously. You cannot say "running big systems is hard" and "they can run a big system better than you can run a small sy

> Those two things cannot be true simultaneously. You cannot say "running big systems is hard" and "they can run a big system better than you can run a small system". They can absolutely be true simultaneously. In fact, I can't name a logic system where those two statements comprise a contradiction. They are logically completely unrelated to each other.