A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's law.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's law.

The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.