> When I began in software in the 1980s I was dismissed as an “object guy” by database folks and as a “data modeler” by object folks. I've since been dismissed as a “patterns guy”, “agile guy”, “architecture guy”, “java guy”, “ruby guy”, and “anti-architect guy”. I'm now a past-it gray-beard surviving on drinking the intellectual blood of my younger colleagues. It's tasty.

I don't think you can find that level of ego anywhere in the software industry or any other industry for that matter. Respetc.