I came here to say this. I have no idea who first said it, but one of my favorite sayings is: "Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engine

I came here to say this. I have no idea who first said it, but one of my favorite sayings is: "Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands." I strongly believe that this applies to computers as well. I love it when a system neatly solves its requirements in a way that looks effortless. When an algorithm looks like it just barely works for all the potential edge cases without any special handling because those edge cases just miraculously happen to work out as they fall through the happy path just like any other case. That's when a solution "feels" right. If I can present my solution/code/explanation to a junior engineer, a C.S. student, or even a non-technical person and they get it, then that's when I feel like I've really done my job. It's music to my ears if I can make a problem look so easy that someone asks "Is that it all it takes?" (until they've tried to solve it on their own :-)