Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.