The Mature Programmer
"The Mature Programmer would say that "clever code is almost always dangerous code". But fuck him. The problem is that when you get carried away with being "mature" you suck the joy right out coding."<p>I counter this with the following:<p>Fuck the joy of programming. On every occasion I've seen a multi-million dollar project crash and burn it was directly attributable to PM's lending credence to developers bitching about "boring" technology.<p>Here's the real joy of professional coding: 40 hour work weeks with no after-hours crisis pager. The only way you get those is through a rock solid codebase that's so boring you can ramp up the new guy in two days.