Well, this is perhaps the way we should write code too: "What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this

Well, this is perhaps the way we should write code too: "What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: Could I put it more shortly? Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?"