The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
A good messenger expects to get shot.
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!