Among some old notes I came upon a quote that I love because aiming for the simplest expression is one of my coding foundations:

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

“The first method is far more difficult.”
— C.A.R. Hoare

It also speaks to one of my core beliefs and something I’ve been saying for a very long time:

Easy is hard.