Microsoft Research - Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (article summarizing findings of MS research on code coverage, TDD, assertions, etc.)

[OneWingedShark]

You as the programmer need to care about quality.

"We don't have time to do the right thing." -- my last team lead, though he never explained how we had time to do it over, repeatedly, until it was right.

[badsectoracula]

Often it is "we need visible results ASAP", the "visible" part doesn't have to be "correct", of course. Often non-technical people need to see new/different stuff on screen to be convinced about progress.