While I agree with this one, I strongly disagree with the elegant code item, the quote above is the exact opposite of elegance. The best developers, that I have ever met wrote elegant code, and by elegant code we all generally accepted that to mean so simple it seemed to be a work of art, so simple that the simplicity of the problem is hidden until you see the code and you think wow, that simplifies that problem so succinctly that it is beautiful. It is the opposite of gold plating which I believe is the root of over engineering. People that over engineer love complexity for complexity's sake. They like to utilize a deep technology stack where people that write elegant solutions look to simplify the technology stack, they look for redundancies and try to eliminate them. I think elegant solutions that views simplicity as a prerequisite for elegance is the antithesis of over engineering.
