Joel on Software: "Why the hell are people so impressed by boring architectures that often amount to nothing more than a new format on the wire for RPC, or a new virtual machine? These things might be good architectures, they will certainly benefit the developers that use them, but they are not, I repeat, not, a good substitute for the messiah riding his white ass into Jerusalem, or world peace." Amen, brother Joel. "If Napster wasn't peer-to-peer but it did let you type the name of a song and then listen to it, it would have been just as popular."

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