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.
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.
Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.
There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.
Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.