To do the Unix philosophy right, you have to be loyal to excellence. You 
have to believe that software design is a craft worth all the 
intelligence, creativity, and passion you can muster. Otherwise you 
won't look past the easy, stereotyped ways of approaching design and 
implementation; you'll rush into coding when you should be thinking. 
You'll carelessly complicate when you should be relentlessly 
simplifying, and then you'll wonder why your code bloats and debugging 
is so hard.

To do the Unix philosophy right, you have to value your own time enough 
never to waste it. If someone has already solved a problem once, don't 
let pride or politics suck you into solving it a second time rather than 
re-using. And never work harder than you have to; work smarter instead, 
and save the extra effort for when you need it. Lean on your tools and 
automate everything you can.

Software design and implementation should be a joyous art, a kind of 
high-level play.