If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
I am a very bottom-up thinker.
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.