The sad thing is that sometimes when you know too much, as this fellow obviously does, you start thinking that you, alone, can see relationships that elude other people. You think other people's ideas are "fuzzy-wuzzy". Then you become the subject of smirk-ful articles such as this one.
Greatness in thinking comes from not only from accumulation but from pruning.
I think, perhaps it is true, that beauty can not be always described by formulas, at least "innovative beauty". However, to have good convenient rules of the thumb, to let less artistic people be able to quickly create something not really ugly - it is nice, is not it?
Greatness in thinking comes from not only from accumulation but from pruning.