KISS Principle


Simple approaches are more robust than complex ones
You can fully understand the solution
... which automatically leads to fewer bugs

Bugs grow with the square of the lines of code
Thus, modular designs feature fewer bugs than monolitic ones
It's always a trade-off between modular design and speed

Every "if" statement doubles the possible code paths
Does it mean that bugs grow exponentially with conditionals?
Beware of conditionals. They bite back. Always.
Every code path must be tested