People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The amount of imaginary problems a software engineer can create for themselves is a function of their imagination and of the difficulty of the real problems they’re supposed to solve.
~ https://cerebralab.com/Imaginary_Problems_Are_the_Root_of_Bad_Software

Uncomfortable without a standard for right and wrong, the judgmental mind makes up standards of its own.
~ The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey

Coding is not mechanical. If it were, all the CASE tools that people pinned their hopes on in the early 1980s would have replaced programmers long ago.