Babak

People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software [Audio version (read by a tts bot)](https://youtu.be/9jODhmgkp3o) ![https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/De_Rebus_Bellicis%2C_XVth_

The amount of imaginary problems a software engineer can create for themselves is a function of their imagination and of the difficulty of the real problems they’re supposed to solve.
~ https://cerebralab.com/Imaginary_Problems_Are_the_Root_of_Bad_Software

Uncomfortable without a standard for right and wrong, the judgmental mind makes up standards of its own.
~ The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey

There are decisions to be made every minute — decisions that require careful thought and judgment if the resulting program is to enjoy a long, accurate, and productive life.
~ The Pragmatic Programmer
by Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt

Coding is not mechanical. If it were, all the CASE tools that people pinned their hopes on in the early 1980s would have replaced programmers long ago.