Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.

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

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.