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What a very odd book. The voice is incredibly serious, yet often with tongue planted firmly in cheek. The style reminds me a bit of The Dilbert Principle, but with less overt humor and more "wink-wink-nudge-nudge, but no, this is really serious".

Also, it's an old book, and it shows through the examples and footnotes. Many of them date to the 60s and the 70s. Although this printing was released in 2012, there's a lot of the previous decades leaking through.

All of that having been said, the principles seem fairly solid to me. The book warns firmly against optimism when dealing with systems, and advises pragmatic approaches which involve compromise. Several chapters go into some detail discussing software as a system, and I can certainly personally verify most of what was written there. And the many anecdotes are entertaining, if humbling.