No Silver Bullet
So I started my next term at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), which is the fourth, and I have got this very exciting class called Model Based System Engineering, where the teacher had us to read an article called No Silver Bullet, written by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
You may know this article already since it has been widely discussed and was published in 1987. It basically about how system engineering is very hard and disappointing, since it is not as easy as for example physics where you have laws, which apply to most things, which you can relate to and use everywhere, because there are none of them in system engineering.
If you like designing software systems I highly recommend reading this article (link below).
No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
There is also a Wikipedia page on this topic which sums it up pretty good (link below).