Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
One man's constant is another man's variable.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.