„Rules are made to be broken“—true. Also true is that breaking rules out of ignorace leads to disaster, while breaking them from knowledge can lead to the truly special. It can also lead to disaster, too. Don’t break rules unless you know them well enough to know when they shouldn’t apply.
Chuq Von Rospach, Usenet article <61635@apple.Apple.COM> (1992) [Wikiquote]