" Another weakness of the hacker personality is a perverse tendancy to attack all problems from the most technically complicated angle, just because it may mean more interesting problems to solve, or cooler toys to play with. Hackers sometimes have trouble grokking that the bubble gum and paperclip hardware fix is actually the way to go, and that they really don't need to convince the client to buy that shiny new tool they've had your eye on for two months."https://web.archive.org/web/20030610114209/catb.org/jargon/html/weaknesses.html
20XX (or even 3XXX), guess this remains the same!