"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. " - EWD 340 [1]

[1] E.W. Dijkstra - The Humble Programmer, ACM Turing Lecture 1972 (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340...)