It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentall… - Edsger W. Dijkstra

Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.

The major cause [of the software crisis] is that the machines have become several orders of magnitude more powerful! To put it quite bluntly: as long as there were no machines, programming was no problem at all; when we had a few weak computers, programming became a mild problem, and now we have gigantic computers, programming has become an equally gigantic problem. In this sense the electronic industry has not solved a single problem, it has only created them, it has created the problem of using its products.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.