A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
Any noun can be verbed.
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.