"People ask me why I don’t do lectures at magic conventions, and I say, ‘Because I’m still learning.’ Meanwhile, you’ve got people who have been doing magic for ten months and they are actually out there pontificating. It’s absurd"
This.
This.
It shows that Expert Beginner syndrome (http://www.daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of... ) and associated Dunning-Kruger effects isn't peculiar to software development, but is a general part of human nature and flourishes wherever it is allowed to.