Is pedantry really opposed to humility? I know of Alan Kay's witty invective ("Arrogance in Computer Science is measured in nano-Dijkstras") but having read mu

Is pedantry really opposed to humility? I know of Alan Kay's witty invective ("Arrogance in Computer Science is measured in nano-Dijkstras") but having read much of Dijkstra I'm not convinced that he was really arrogant so much as very insistent that programmers recognize their own limitations. "As a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure."