Its origins are in an essay by Dijkstra from 1968 called "Go To Statement Considered Harmful"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful

Plus it's a quick way to write a pithy link-bait title (not commenting on the OP, but in general)

edit Actually according to Wikipedia Dijkstra's original title was different, and Niklaus Wirth changed it. I didn't know that, funny little bit of history.