Inflexibility is the quality I desire more and more as I get older. I don't want to force my software to do dumb shit, I want my software to force me into avoiding dumb shit. This is how you keep a system understandable. That quality is far more precious than the ability to connect complicated enterprise spaghetti machines into each other.

Stability is something that I also desire more and more. Take my digital clock: I put some AA battery in it, adjust the time, and the only thing I do is look at it (its purpose) for the next months or year. I want my computer to be like that. No surprise when updating.