> . I've seen too many 'smart people' drop in and do a bunch of fancy stuff that no one understands before leaving again because they're 'smarter' than everyone

> . I've seen too many 'smart people' drop in and do a bunch of fancy stuff that no one understands before leaving again because they're 'smarter' than everyone else. Eh, they are not really 'smart' now, are they? Sure, they may be mathematically gifted or what have you. But if your definition of 'smart' includes the individual's performance when responding to their world around they, they definitely were not :) The 'smartest' (according to my own definitions and biases) developer I know also happened to write the most beautiful and easy to understand code. He could write clever one-liners. He knew better not to.