I thought this was a nice summation of what we go through.
See:
http://www.kevinwilliampang.com/post/Programming-Proverbs.aspx
I enjoyed reading suggestions like:
No one wants to be the one who has to clean up sloppy code, but neither does
anyone want to be the one that makes a mess out of beautiful code.
It's also important to realize the extraordinary power that programmers
have assumed because of their impact on business (proverb# 10)!
-Kedar