> Smart authors generally write simpler code. It's much harder to write simple code than complex for reasons that boil down to entropy -- there are simply many more ways to write complex code than simple code, and finding one of the simple expressions of program logic requires both smarts and a modicum of experience.

The people writing the complex code generally seem to think they're smart.

That was me, once. And I was smart, but I was also applying my smarts very, very poorly.