Probably as good a reason as any, and better than most, for me to dismiss whatever, fleeting thoughts I might have had about trying to write such a book :)
Examine what is said, not who speaks.
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"Think for yourself!" - Abigail
"Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon