I heard this gem a couple of weeks ago: "Don't engineer things to failure." When you find yourself saying "I ought to be able to generalize this", that's when

I heard this gem a couple of weeks ago: "Don't engineer things to failure." When you find yourself saying "I ought to be able to generalize this", that's when you need to stop and just write the code you need to write NOW. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.