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Software is not a product, but rather a medium for the storage of knowledge. [..]
[T]he hard part of building systems is not building them, it's knowing what to build ‐ it's in acquiring the necessary knowledge. This leads us to another observation: if software is not a product but a medium for storing knowledge, then software development is not a product-producing activity, it is a knowledge-acquiring activity.
Phillip Armour — The Five Orders of Ignorance
Although I don't entirely agree with its absoluteness, it's an interesting framing of the matter nonetheless.