My mentor was a professor at MIT for a time and then founded his own company. I joined his company as a young hot shot that thought I knew it all, I was a good

My mentor was a professor at MIT for a time and then founded his own company. I joined his company as a young hot shot that thought I knew it all, I was a good hacker but not a good developer and I learned that quickly working with him and his team, but that is a story for another time. The point of my post is one thing he said to me stuck with me more than anything else in my career and that was: "Elegant code is not clever code, elegant code is code that is so simple it is clever. Strive for elegance."