[pcwalton]

> If a person was secure in their knowledge of their skills, their ability to understand problems and fix them, then there should be nothing to fear from a dozen or a million different libraries doing the same thing and running into one or two of them on one's next project.

I actually do fear a million reimplementations of, say, RSA.

[moron4hire]

The impact of bad software is vastly overrated. Almost all of it is bad already, and yet we haven't killed ourselves off as a species yet.