Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.
Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time
The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.
Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry