A STAFF MEMBER'S MANIFESTO
OR CLICHES TO WORK BY

• If it's not worth doing well, it's not worth doing.
  Compare:
  

  John Marshall's Maxim: If it's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well.
  Tom West's Rule: Not all things worth doing are worth doing well.

• However, good enough is perfect.
  

  Pareto's Rule: 80% of needs can be taken care of by 20% of cost.

• If it's not written down, it doesn't exist.
• Doing well comes not from being right but from making good choices.
• (In re ``Toilet Paper'':) Shitting, too, is necessary and important, but don't spend much time at it.
• Don't get jerked around second hand.
• Everybody needs feedback.
• There's always something interesting to do.
• Everything's an opportunity.
• A good man is more important than a good idea.
• It takes 4 (or sometimes 1) to do the work of 2.
• Work with good people, not despite mediocre ones.
• People don't change; but you can adapt to them.
• Don't be jealous of full-time hackers; contributing real data takes time.
• If you think you know more about someone else's experiments than they do, something is wrong.
• Remember the difference: policy, process, and practice.
• Safety primarily comes from individual responsibility.
• Instead of conceiving only one error, imagine many, and so become the slave of none. --- Eco
• Leaders are engaged both in doing the right things and in doing things right. --- H. C. Luce, III

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