I was born to win, but in order to win I gotta be willing to lose.
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Hard work and integrity are the foundations of any successful enterprise.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.