Happened across this while feeling cranky about the hyperdull topic of arguing about whether keeping to underlined linkstyles constrains creativity on the London-IA mailing list.
Gah. So much energy used up in my lifetime arguing about that with people instead of much, much more interesting design challenges.
The quote by Matt Webb is about webservices, but hopefully you get the point.
“My favourite thing about Web services? I can get on with what I want to do (recombine things in interesting ways) without pissing around cleaning up malformed things to make them recombinable. It’s the same reason I don’t build my own computers, the same reason I use a Mac, the same reason I like science. Standing on shoulders.”
Petafloptimism 