Programming is about dumbing things down.

The more code you write, the more you wish you had written less.

What I mean by this is that after completing almost any programming assignment, one looks at ways in which the code could be optimized. Since optimization is a much more intellectual task, programmers like me try to confuse it with the size of code. I belong to a category of coders that think less the code more optimized the algorithm is. And you know what, for once I think I am on the right side of things in computing.

While being able to write crazy amount of code is a fantasy we all have but no one would question the beauty of an elegant solution to a tricky problem that saved day at the office. Computer scientists make a living out of telling dumb things (computers) to do dumb things (instructions) in order to achieve impressive feats (solve a Rubik's cube or simulate the universe, take a pick). What this process does is that it eventually breaks in a computer scientist the egoistic complexity a human has innately. They (I hesitate to include myself) tend to think about things from a more elementary point of view. Redefining problems in order to make the solution seem much more obvious,  classifying behavior in order to be able to compute it and being succinct in what they have to offer for the sake of being fast and not more omniscience.

An awesome algorithm may not be one that solves a hundred problems at once but rather an algorithm that solves a single problem simply. It is important for a coder to realize that computers can never be as smart as we are. Getting smart requires evolution and evolution takes time. So in order to be effective as a programmer one needs to learn to solve problems from a much more dumber perspective. Once we move being intelligent out of the equation we can start focusing on being less complicated. And once we are less complicated, we are less inclined to be wrong. And what do we call something that is not wrong? Right.

Write programs that can make sense to computers, after all they are the ones that have to run it.