Treat your code like poetry and take it to the edge of the bare minimum

“Treat your code like poetry and take it to the edge of the bare minimum.”
~ ILYO

“I have learned magnitudes more from code I have maintained over code I have written from scratch.”
~ Viktor Klang, in this tweet

I have no idea who or what ILYO is, but I like the “poetry” part, and dislike the “bare minimum” part. As the second quote implies, code should be written so you can read it a year or two from now.