Some good pieces of advice. Here’s the outline:
Programming is a craft not science or engineering
Honesty is the best policy
Simplify, simplify, simplify
Debuggers are sometimes a crutch, profilers are not
Code duplication will bite you (aka Don’t Repeat Yourself)
Be promiscuous with languages
It’s easier to grow software than build it
Learn the layers
I’m not young enough to know everything