One of my favorite opening paragraphs, forget that, favorite quotes is from William Gibson's "Johnny Mnemonic":


      I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness. I'd had to turn both those twelve-gauge shells from brass stock, on the lathe, and then load then myself; I'd had to dig up an old microfiche with instructions for hand- loading cartridges; I'd had to build a lever-action press to seat the primers -all very tricky. But I knew they'd work.


In VB.NET one of the most common ways I like to go low-tek is to use HTML items instead of .NET controls. Why use a .NET link to go to a page when a regular old HTML 4.01 one will work?

Why use a complicated hi-tek solution when a low-tek one will work? Try to go as low-tek as you can. Just like the quote says, they won’t expect it.