Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French writer (1900 – 1944)
Programmers know the benefits of everything but the trade-offs of nothing.
- Rich Hickey
If you don’t have time to do it right, what makes you think you will have time to do it over?
- Seth Godin
A bad developer will manually carry out the same tasks repeatedly, a good developer will automate the task, a great developer will make the task obsolete.
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
- Martin Fowler
Rich Hickey discusses simplicity, why it is important, how to achieve it in design and how to recognize its absence in the tools, language constructs and libraries.
