Good code is its own best documentation.

Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation.

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

Software projects fail for one of two general reasons: the project team lacks the knowledge to conduct a software project successfully, or the project team lacks the resolve to conduct a project effectively.

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.