Adding to this, I think one should not assume beautiful software and beautiful code to be the same thing. Just like the many dimensions of beautiful, there are many dimensions of "software", only one of which is code.

Beautiful software should solve a problem. It should fit in like a cog to empower humans to do lot more things or do things which were harder to do before.

Beautiful software includes a lot more things than just code or how code is written.

Finally !

These slides are the best way to learn graphics! It also shows the true potential of the web !!