I've seen this quote in many of the recent discussions of the evils of Entity Framework.

In the comments to Sebastien Lambla's, blog post, Danny Simmons explains:

The goal is not one model to rule them all. The goal is unifying the way you specify models in many tools to be the same. That way you can leverage your learning across many things. That way if you WANT to reuse some of your model in multiple places you can, but the real thing is that it's absolutely ridiculous that I have to do essentially the same task in completely different ways when I want to build a model for my objects that talk to the database and another model (maybe with different contents but the same idea of a model) for my reporting and another one for whatever else. We're trying to eliminate the differences in experience and learning required for the parts of these tasks that are very much the same.

I thought it was worth surfacing.