> Johnson deplores the trend toward specialization with the lament of a designer who also knows how to handle machine tools. “Some of the fellows in the Skunk Works never had any cutting oil splashed on them.”

There are plenty of programmers that have never held a soldering iron either.

I'm not even sure if that's 'good' or 'bad', it seems there are advantages to knowing what goes on under the hood but at the same time that knowledge comes in to play less and less every day.