When the way of Unix is forgotten,

"team players" and "professionalism" appear.

When ego and cleverness dominate,

the codebase becomes a pile of cruft.

When the team has not jelled,

"vision statements" and "objective-setting" are all we hear of.

When the startup is heading for the rocks,

the talk is of "company loyalty" and "management by exception".

[Credit: esr provided an early version.]