Programming Is About Managing Change

The first version of your code doesn’t matter much.
The tenth version does.

Requirements change.
Users change.
Your understanding changes.

Bad code resists change.
Good code expects it.

That’s why great engineers optimize for:
clarity over cleverness
flexibility over perfection
simplicity over completeness

Software isn’t finished.
It evolves.

Write code that’s easy to change, not easy to admire.

– Serguey Asael Shinder