The author's "feelings" are useful when they were one of the authors of AlexNet[1]. A 10% improvement on ImageNet[2] makes one think he might know a little about the subject.

[1] http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/imagenet.pdf

[2] http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2012/results.html (Look for SuperVision)