Taking a useful concept and stretching it to an extreme in order to generate a counterintuitive-but-plausible soundbite is not the same thing as wisdom. Other

Taking a useful concept and stretching it to an extreme in order to generate a counterintuitive-but-plausible soundbite is not the same thing as wisdom. Other examples that come to mind are "a complete rewrite is always a mistake" (no, it just has different risks/rewards), "if you are reading this part of the docs, you are trying to be too clever" (your API is too much for my puny brain is it?) and "all functions are APIs" (no, my two-line string quoting func is not an API, actually).