"Here English should be understood as a stand-in for any field which could be held in dialectical opposition to Computer Science: anthropology, criminal forensics, art history… Pursuing knowledge in this way, much like learning a new language, not only introduces you to, but installs you within, new diverse cycles of thought and promotes a creativity which I think is essential to excelling, dominating, or “winning” at Software Development."

I think I agree with him. In my university, most of the staff was kind of dilettants - I always reasoned that it's because a good teacher should master his subject and once you master it, you probably won't want to settle for 1/5th of the regular wage...