Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.