Look, all things considered I like that we have someone like esr. He's an important figure in the history of software engineering. Whatever my opinion of his software output might be, that doesn't affect his impact a bit.

But the man's writing - and that statement in particular - is just so pompous. And here of all cases we have two opposites colliding. One is a world-class expert on the topic in question, NTP, and the other is a world-class self promoter. So when esr says that Kamp might `possibly produce something better` than him while working on an ntpd successor, I can't help but smile. =)