[sitkack]

Take what is fixed and make it flexible.

Take what is one and make it many.

Take what is repeated and make it one, and fast.

[skummetmaelk]

Where is this from?

[sitkack]

These are common patterns I have extracted from things that are innovative. Most of the time, the innovation is a simple perspective transformation.

Read 1000 patents and extract the abstract refactorings that made the idea possible.

[geon]

Also; Take what is flexible and make it fixed.