[tvanantwerp]

Something I once heard that I think is kinda true:

When something goes wrong on the computer, there are two types of reactions: I am wrong, or the computer is wrong. The "I am wrong" person is discouraged and never gets very good at computes. The "computer is wrong" person persists until they bend the computer to their will.

[chrisdirkis]

Personally, I'd have picked it the other way. "I am wrong" tends to go "the computer did exactly what I told it to, so I must have told it to do the wrong thing", whereas "computer is wrong" tends to have less recourse about what to do next. I guess, in my mind, the framing is around the locus of control.