YOUTUBE AbgsfeGvg3E Kevlin Henney gives his talk "Old is the New New"
Kevin reflects on how we keep rediscovering the same things.
"My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent" -- Edsger Dijkstra
Simplicity rules, the fastest code is no code. The fastest IO is no IO.
Quote from Alan Perlis - 35:43
"Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on no-quite-right counts as interest on this debt" --Ward Cunningham, oopsla92 
Debit is ok in the short term, like a mortgage it's not just saying "this sucks". Henney argues that structuring your debt is important, and that you should look to paying it off.