软件的质量会带来更大的销量。有时确实如此，但并非总是如此。

人们知道他们想要什么。

在很长一段时间里，我以为我会和人们交谈，他们会描述一个问题或工作流程，我将其放入代码并自动化。结果每次发生这种情况，他们以为自己想要的并不是他们真正想要的。

Edit: I agree with most of the comments. This is not a technical answer and may not be what the questioner was looking for. It doesn't apply only to programming. I'm sure it's not my longest-held assumption either, but it was the most striking thing I've learned in the 10 short years I've been doing this. I'm sure it was pure naivete on my part but the way my brain is/was wired and the teaching and experiences I had prior to entering the business world led me to believe that I would be doing what I answered; that I would be able to use code and computers to fix people's problems.

我想这个答案类似于Robin关于非程序员理解/关心我所谈论的内容的回答。这是关于将业务作为一个敏捷的、迭代的、交互的过程来学习。它是关于学习编程猴子和软件开发人员之间的区别。这是关于意识到两者之间的区别，并且在该领域真正优秀，不仅仅是语法和输入速度。

编辑:这个答案现在是社区-wiki，以安抚人们对这个答案感到不安，给我代表。

总有一天，我会有一个现实的想法，那就是构建一些重要的代码/系统/什么的需要多长时间。

我希望自己能成为有钱人，为别人编程

我们作为软件工程师能够理解用户真正想要的是什么。

我一直认为，任何为任何语言编写任何代码的人都会使用编辑程序。

I was working with a client of mine who had me on mostly as support and to write some of the more complex things for him. Well one day he messed up a file, big time. He accidentally saved over three hours worth of his own work, and when I asked him why he didn't save more often he replied with, "because I wasn't done". Naturally, this was not an acceptable answer, and I poked and prodded a little further. I eventually came to find out that he he has never used any editing program, EVER! Not even notepad.exe! He had been using an online CPanel editor for files! It didn't even have a 'Find' function. He couldn't ever save until he was done because he was editing the live file on the site!

不用说，我很惊讶，他至今仍在使用CPanel编辑器……