Interesting that he hit on the top three points in the pony philosophy[1] but in a very different order than they chose. For pony, the order is:
1. Correctness
2. Performance
3. Simplicity
4. Consistency
5. Completeness
I think I tend to agree with that order more. While simplicity tends to be helpful with performance and correctness, there are very few cases where you'd sacrifice correctness/performance for simplicity if implementation time/cost were not a factor. Let's not confuse a way of getting to the goal with the goal itself.
> Incorrectness is simply not allowed. It’s pointless to try to get stuff done if you can’t guarantee the result is correct.