I think many programmers want to believe our work is more important than it is. That leads to ignoring simple observations about reality like this one, since t

I think many programmers want to believe our work is more important than it is. That leads to ignoring simple observations about reality like this one, since this one implies that in most companies software doesn't matter much and the CEO is right to treat it as a cost center. Nobody wants to hear that about what they do with their life. To be fair, you could run 'sed s/programmers/humans/' on my first sentence and leave its truth value unchanged.