Story about the conflicts between correctness, elegance and simplicity. Supported only by quotes.

1. Simple, Elegant, Correct

2. Iwein Fuld

3. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci

4. “The simplest things are often the truest.”
Richard Bach

5. “Simplicity is the nature of great souls.”
Papa Ramadas

6. “Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has
played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it
is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward
of art.”
Frederic Chopin

7. “A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.”
Eugene Delacroix

8. “As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a
tradition that stands in the way of exploration.”
Laura Nyro

9. “Everything should be made as simple as
possible, but not simpler.”
Albert Einstein

10. “Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.”
Edsger Dijkstra

11. “Even before string theory, especially as physics
developed in the 20th century, it turned out that
the equations that really work in describing nature
with the most generality and the greatest
simplicity are very elegant and subtle.”
Edward Witten

12. “I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is
beautiful.”
Norman Hartnell

13. “Why has elegance found so little following?
Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is
needed to achieve it and a good education to
appreciate it.”

14. “A program that produces incorrect results twice
as fast is infinitely slower.”
John Osterhout

15. “Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in
the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as
cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
smart enough to debug it.”
Brian W. Kernighan & P.J. Plauger

16. “Maybe I do what I do because if I built anything
more complicated, I couldn't understand it. I really
must break it down into little pieces.”
Ken Thompson

17. “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 Dijkstra

18. “Are you quite sure that all those bells and
whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so
called powerful programming languages, belong
to the solution set rather than the problem set?”
Edsger Dijkstra

19. “Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't
doing anything. One of the attractive things about
programmers is that you cannot tell whether or
not they are working simply by looking at them.
Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking
coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space.
What the programmer is trying to do is get a
handle on all the individual and unrelated
ideas that are scampering around in his head.”
Charles M. Strauss

20. “Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a
system does not do what it is supposed to do,
then everything else about it matters little.”
Bertrand Meyer

21. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity,
patience, compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.”
Lao Tsu

22. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity,
patience, compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.”
Lao Tsu

23. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity,
patience, compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.”
Lao Tsu

24. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity,
patience, compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.”
Lao Tsu

25. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity,
patience, compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.”
Lao Tsu

26. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity,
patience, compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.”
Lao Tsu

27. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity,
patience, compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.”
Lao Tsu

28. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity,
patience, compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.”
Lao Tsu

29. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity,
patience, compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.”
Lao Tsu

30. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity,
patience, compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.”
Lao Tsu

31. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity,
patience, compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.”
Lao Tsu

32. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity,
patience, compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.”
Lao Tsu

33. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity,
patience, compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.”
Lao Tsu

34. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity,
patience, compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.”
Lao Tsu

35. code(food, bar)
Xebia Craftsmanship Curriculum
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