A few weeks ago at work we had a talk where senior developers (including me) were invited to spend around five minutes each talking about our personal software development philosophies. The idea was for us to share our years of experience with our more junior developers.
– qntm, Developer Philosophy
My favorites: “Aim to be 90% done in 50% of the available time”, “It is insufficient for code to be provably correct; it should be obviously, visibly, trivially correct”, “Write code to be testable”.