I very much like this quote. Used to work with a team of contractors out of Eastern Europe. They were exceptional programmers but wrote code using obscure language features and in such an odd way that now that they are gone, every time someone has to debug some of their code its a very frustrating process. There are definitely times to use 'clever' coding practices but nine times out of 10, just write it simply and focus on readability. Your team will thank you and you will thank yourself a couple years down the road.
We all used to do this (ii feels right) until we got burned or had to upgrade and rewrite. Now I try to make everything as simple and straightforward. Really helps you scale because yesterdays work doesn' t need to change.
