See also this discussion in response to an article "Emotional Intelligence is overrated" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8389065

and let me dupe my comment to that:

Without falling on either side of the debate, it's probably a good time to bring out this quote from 1704.

    "Good engineers are so scarce, that one must bear with their humours"

    - Lord Galway, 1704