[gabeh]

Darn, someone in the comments section of the post beat me to the best zinger of all. Please see Joel's 2001 post titled "Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You."[1]

"When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all."

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html