This is a quote I usually see attributed to Mark Twain:
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
The quoteinvestigator.com research on that indicates that Twain “did not use it according to the best available research”.
The earliest use of this phrase from is Blaise Pascal in 1657 ( yes, that Pascal ), originally in French as part of “Lettres Provinciales”:
Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
Google Translate offers up this English version:
I have done it longer because I have not had time to make it shorter.
That applies to many things that benefit from refinement over time, including programming.