Maxims of Being a Maximally Effective Eve Player:

6: If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

12. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.

21. Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he's lucky just to be alive, and he'll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow.

27: Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.

42. "They'll never expect this" means "I want to try something stupid."

58. The pen is mightiest when it writes orders for more swords.

68. Negotiating from a position of strength does not mean you shouldn’t also negotiate from a position near the exits.