Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

C++ is an insult to the human brain

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.