Another thing Dave Winer said:

Developers love complexity

I definitely don't agree with this.

When I'm building software, I'm doing it for the end result. The idea is what gets me most excited; the implementation is sort of a hassle, and I tend to choose the lowest-cost route to meet my goal of actually finishing the project. This is one reason I love .NET so much: I think development tools should be as simple as possible, and I think that .NET comes closer than any other platform to providing me with the ease of use I want.

If I had to do everything in C++, then I just wouldn't do anything at all. There are too many ideas and too little time to waste, in my opinion, on complexity.

Of course, I could just be one of the exceptions. I know that many developers love to take the "I am the god of your computer" stance, but that drives me nuts.

I just want my stuff to work, and this means that complexity is bad.

Still, though, in spite of the fact that I only rarely agree with the guy, I actually rather like him if not his ideas.