Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.