This isn&#x27;t really true.<p>If a requirement is &#x27;creative&#x27; - that is, it involves doing something that has never been done before, as opposed to a standard design pattern - then it will also require a creative implementation.  Sometimes very simple requirements require great creativity in the implementation.<p>Most software requirements leave the question of <i>how</i> the thing will be achieved entirely unstated.  It&#x27;s very easy to write a single page of requirements that could require hundreds of pages of code to implement.