"How long will people continue believing in the myth of the 15-year-old hacker genius while simultaneously decrying the unreliability of software before the cognitive dissonance finally cracks?" -Dave Herman (http://calculist.blogspot.com/2005/12/12-weeks-with-geeks.ht...)

Also, programmers who have been working for >30 years (who started before the mid-late 70s) didn't have the option of learning to program at home, on a PC. PCs caused the number of new, but not potentially good, programmers entering the job market to spike.