Keeping things simple is hard. It takes a willingness to admit your mistakes and the time to go back and correct them.

If you want something to last, you've got to fight to keep it from rotting under the weight of its own design. The less design, the more easily it can adapt to change.

Ingrained in the Go project is the philosophy that things are always worth fixing, no matter how small. I don't think the value of this idea can be overstated.