Honestly, as a data point... you were wrong. I was just being a smart ass. If I had any thought in mind besides just to be a contrarian it was, to quote Volta

Honestly, as a data point... you were wrong. I was just being a smart ass. If I had any thought in mind besides just to be a contrarian it was, to quote Voltaire, "A witty saying proves nothing.". I've been around the block a bit too and I know that these articles on HN and the one-line summations of "write more code", "write less code", "write purple code", "Code you don't write doesn't have bugs", etc. don't really mean anything more than my stupid "... but doesn't do anything either. :P". It's like throwing people random tools out of a toolbox. "When you do carpentry, use a chisel", "For building houses, a hammer is what you need", etc. If the carpenters you're throwing a chisel to don't know how to properly use a chisel, then just throwing one at them isn't helpful. If they already know how to use a chisel, then you're not helping them either. Maybe you were just trying to give them a clever-sounding quote with an obvious rejoinder to throw out on HN and thus promote a little discussion? In that case, I guess it worked well enough. :)