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Obscurely labelled as the The Zen of Python (by Tim Peters) offers some lighthearted pragmatism and welcome relief in the face of TheCheeseMovement.

• Beautiful is better than ugly
• Explicit is better than implicit
• Simple is better than complex
• Complex is better than complicated
• Flat is better than nested
• Sparse is better than dense
• Readability counts
• Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules
• Although practicality beats purity
• Errors should never pass silently
• Unless explicitly silenced
• In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess
• There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it
• Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch [personally don't get the Dutch connection but it does apply to some i have in mind ]
• Now is better than never
• Although never is often better than *right* now
• If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea
• If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea
• Namespaces are one honking great idea — let’s do more of those[erm... well.. mmm...]