Write Less Code

http://mikegrouchy.com/blog/2012/06/write-less-code.html

When you think about it though the fact that most of your time will be maintaining the terrible code you wrote, writing less code and not creating more work for yourself will start to look like an exceptionally good idea.

Really software development job is to think, your job is to think about the problem at hand, devise an elegant solution and then turn that solution into software.