Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.
Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better.
"El silencio es a veces la mejor respuesta."
The true power of an algorithm is not in its speed or efficiency, but in its ability to reveal the hidden structures of the problems it addresses.