Tis a gift to be simple, tis a gift to … write code?
Hooblogger Luke Melia shared this Shaker proverb that has applicability to software:
If it is not useful or necessary, free yourself from imagining that you need to make it.
If it is useful and necessary, free yourself from imagining that you need to enhance it by adding what is not an integral part of its usefulness or [...]
