Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess That is one of the ends for which they exist Ignore all rules including this one To apply a rule to the letter rigidly unquestioningly in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit is pedantry Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind To apply a rule with natural ease with judgment noticing the cases where it fits and without ever letting the words of https://askoff.ru/question/9 rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation is mastery 96 7 98 96 8 98 By all means break the rules and break them beautifully deliberately and well The rules are only barriers to keep children from falling Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules The code is more what you call guidelines than actual rules