it's "know" with a K. 1. I understand this as "don't wait for perfection before committing", not "try to improve every code you checkout". If I have no good re

it's "know" with a K. 1. I understand this as "don't wait for perfection before committing", not "try to improve every code you checkout". If I have no good reason to touch some code I won't, even if it looks ugly (and I'll be dealing with some horrendous things in the coming months.) 2. Simple code is boring. Boring can be good. Code that I find beautiful is more clever than simple (as in, after that "AHA!" moment the cleverness appears that would have required tons more simple code when here these 2 lines do the same.) I find foo = ( bar ) ? bla : bli; much more beautiful than if ( bar) { foo = bla } else { foo = bli }