Agreed with everything he said except the terrible tools item. Sounded like he's referring to things like Unix, vi, emacs, terminal/shell, etc. If so, he's wron

Agreed with everything he said except the terrible tools item. Sounded like he's referring to things like Unix, vi, emacs, terminal/shell, etc. If so, he's wrong and has it backwards. Folks use them precisely because they are so powerful and flexible, and yet can be both very simple or as complex as needed to fit the problem. Where he sees a complicated tool a good engineer sees a complex problem space and then appreciates a tool which lets him solve it efficiently.