A friend of mine said something to me one day that really struck me - "I don't think I'm humble enough to be a programmer". He has done programming in the past,

A friend of mine said something to me one day that really struck me - "I don't think I'm humble enough to be a programmer". He has done programming in the past, he knows what's up, and he knows that you need to put aside your ego and spend just hours figuring out one tiny bug (that ends up being something stupidly obvious in the end), days perfecting the last .1% of your project, and so on. It's humbling. Not everyone can deal with that. It's just as much of an aspect of a good coder as anything else.