The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.

— Edsger W. Dijkstra, The Humble Programmer (1972)

Source: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html

Topics: programming, complexity