Writing code that is well designed but not over-designed is a great skill.

It is in every engineer to write the gold plated car, as it is in marketing and sales to always need the future tomorrow to gain competitive edge.

The number of times I wrote beautiful code are quite numerous, the number of times it is still not used to its potential as well. In the end I spent too much time over engineering for a disastrous moment or extension that never happened, or was never requested by a customer.

I have written godforsaken shortcuts that are used so frequently it made me feel proud and ashamed at the same time.

Now, I have come to believe that knowing when to stop is the greatest skill of all.