No, it's important as a source of credibility. Imagine an article about how a career in software inspired a CEO to start his company, and it quoted him as sayin

No, it's important as a source of credibility. Imagine an article about how a career in software inspired a CEO to start his company, and it quoted him as saying "I got tired of writing all those PHPs for Googer." It's so far from what an actual domain expert would say that it's impossible to ignore.