When he says that he has learned to distrust beauty, what he should be saying is to distrust infatuation. It is infatuation that blinds us to the limitations of

When he says that he has learned to distrust beauty, what he should be saying is to distrust infatuation. It is infatuation that blinds us to the limitations of code (or anything else). You can get past the infatuation and beautiful code will still be beautiful -- even though you can see its limitations.