I think more importantly [with regards to humility] that while it's important to talk with your users, you still need to be hubristic. His reason for being humb

I think more importantly [with regards to humility] that while it's important to talk with your users, you still need to be hubristic. His reason for being humble is this: There is a huge payoff for being humble about your ability to understand software requirements. In Agile methodologies, the goal is to get users a working program as quickly as possible so they can try it and tell you what they really want But you still need to be a bit of an arrogant dictator and remember that just because users tell you what they really want, doesn't mean they really want that. Which doesn't really map to hubris I guess, but it certainly isn't humility. GNOME 2's `draining the swamp' effort comes to mind.