There are two kinds of cleverness: cleverness that makes things simpler and easier to understand, and cleverness that makes things more complicated and harder t

There are two kinds of cleverness: cleverness that makes things simpler and easier to understand, and cleverness that makes things more complicated and harder to understand. Often the former is the more difficult of the two, and also the mark of a better programmer. Moreover, experienced-but-average programmers will often decry cleverness in general, having observed too many cases of the latter and not enough of the former kind, and then when the former kind comes along, they have the same reaction, and this is bad.