Keep it simple
Software development often suffers from 2 aspects: bad code, and unnecessary complexity.
The first point can be avoided by reviews, but how to avoid unnecessary complexity?
Maybe by keeping the experience and philosophy of smart engineers in mind:
"Keep it simple, stupid" aka KISS
Kelly Johnson - American Aircraft Engineer, known as an organizing genius.
"The principle is best exemplified by the story of Johnson handing a team of design engineers a handful of tools, with the challenge that the jet aircraft they were designing must be repairable by an average mechanic in the field under combat conditions with only these tools. Hence, the "stupid" refers to the relationship between the way things break and the sophistication available to repair them."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer)
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"
Leonardo da Vinci
"Less is more"
Mies Van Der Rohe - German-American architect, widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture.
"He created an influential twentieth-century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. He called his buildings "skin and bones" architecture."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe
"Make Simple Tasks Simple!"
Bjarne Stroustrup - Danish computer scientist. "In 2015, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum for his invention of the C++ programming language."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup
"It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove"
Antoine de Saint Exupéry - French writer, poet
"Simplify, then add lightness"
Colin Chapman - English design engineer, inventor and founder of Lotus Cars.
"His design philosophy focused on cars with light weight and fine handling instead of bulking up on horsepower and spring rates, which he famously summarized as "Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Chapman
The first point can be avoided by reviews, but how to avoid unnecessary complexity?
Maybe by keeping the experience and philosophy of smart engineers in mind:
"Keep it simple, stupid" aka KISS
Kelly Johnson - American Aircraft Engineer, known as an organizing genius.
"The principle is best exemplified by the story of Johnson handing a team of design engineers a handful of tools, with the challenge that the jet aircraft they were designing must be repairable by an average mechanic in the field under combat conditions with only these tools. Hence, the "stupid" refers to the relationship between the way things break and the sophistication available to repair them."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer)
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"
Leonardo da Vinci
"Less is more"
Mies Van Der Rohe - German-American architect, widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture.
"He created an influential twentieth-century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. He called his buildings "skin and bones" architecture."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe
"Make Simple Tasks Simple!"
Bjarne Stroustrup - Danish computer scientist. "In 2015, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum for his invention of the C++ programming language."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup
"It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove"
Antoine de Saint Exupéry - French writer, poet
"Simplify, then add lightness"
Colin Chapman - English design engineer, inventor and founder of Lotus Cars.
"His design philosophy focused on cars with light weight and fine handling instead of bulking up on horsepower and spring rates, which he famously summarized as "Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Chapman