I have no idea what you're talking about here with the mumbles; but I can see that you're getting upvoted, so I suppose there's some hidden context here that I'm not aware of. Someone care to clarify?

He's probably referring to the idea that much of the complexity around today is not particularly useful - in particular, that programming with values rather than variables makes understanding a program substantially easier.

Simple Made Easy is a talk by Rich Hickey, the author of the Clojure programming language which encodes a lot of these ideas into the language.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

[EDIT: ambiguous comma :)]

Shuttlebrad is right, but I was mocking the general pattern of proselytization.

I believe in what Hickey's doing though.