I know you were _partly_ joking, but...:)

>1. The rules change, and you do not have the time to know what the lastest fad is.

No good programmer follows rules because they are the fad. In this industry, however, the participants are smart enough that most of the fads are intelligent (take patterns, for example).

>2. A lot of rules do not really have a reason to exist

Name five.

>3. You most probably will not finish your project within the delay if you follow the rules.

This is the "OOP slows development" argument. I think I'd have to be a real moron to use technology that doesn't make me deliver better product faster.