I'm a big fan of Gall's Law: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from

I'm a big fan of Gall's Law: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system." [0] I don't throw my first version away, I just start really simple and evolve it iteratively, making sure it works at each stage, and by the time it's done very little of the original code remains. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall.27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall.27s_la...