Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Accidental stacks considered harmful.
I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.