Keep it simple

Recently I saw pieces of code that could be simplified. I see such code often, however, recently I came across code that seemed to follow the same pattern
The patern was as in the following example:

private boolean someFlag;

...

public boolean isSomeFlagSet() {
  if (someFlag) {
    return true;
  }
  else {
    return false;
  }
}

Why not simply write:

public boolean isSomeFlagSet() {
  return someFlag;
}

It is so much simpler!
Similarly to boolean flags, there where occurencies of other object types being used and methods invoked on them in the following manner:

public String getCity() {
  if (address == null) {
    return null;
  }
  else {
    return address.getCity();
  }
}

This can be also simplified (applying "change if-else to ?:" refactoring) to:

public String getCity() {
  return address == null ? null : address.getCity();
}

Please strive for simplicity in your code (K.I.S.S. principle). Verbosity clutters the code and can hide the meaning or intention of it.