Indeed, Antoine de Saint-Exupery said it best: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Unfortunately, as developers, we're always at odds with the reverse tendency, expressed by Zawinski's Law: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
Unfortunately, as developers, we're always at odds with the reverse tendency, expressed by Zawinski's Law: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."