Always followed this rule, 100% pure and simple, since the 70's when it all began for me. Of course, I failed at various degree's in actuality, but I also had

Always followed this rule, 100% pure and simple, since the 70's when it all began for me. Of course, I failed at various degree's in actuality, but I also had major wins with my 'code is not an identity' general policy. One of those wins involving the realisation that in fact, code is not me, I am not code, but what code really is, is for the User. If the user can't identify with what the code is doing, it is in fact bad code. But only when the user is involved can one really determine good/bad on any kind of scale .. tl;dr s/code/user/