Knight’s Principles
— Never do any work that you can get someone else to do for you
— Avoid responsibility
— Postpone decisions
— Managers don’t do any real work
— Premature optimization leaves everyone unsatisfied
— Try not to care
— Just do it!
— It’s not a good example if it doesn’t work
— Steal everything you can from your parents
— Cover your ass
“Each object will do a seemingly insignificant amount of work, but somehow they add up to something much larger. You can end up tracing through the system, looking for the place where a certain calculation happens, only to realize that the calculation has been done and you just didn’t notice it happening.”