‘ENGLISH MAJORS ARE EXACTLY THE PEOPLE I’M LOOKING FOR,’ one successful Silicon-Valley entrepreneur recently told Michael Malone, as he reports in the Wall Street Journal:

Santosh said, “Are you kidding? English majors are exactly the people I’m looking for.” He explained: Twenty years ago, if you wanted to start a company, you spent a month or so figuring out the product you wanted to build, then devoted the next 10 or 12 months to developing the prototype, tooling up and getting into full production.

These days, he said, everything has been turned upside down. Most products now are virtual, such as iPhone apps. You don’t build them so much as construct them from chunks of existing software code—and that work can be contracted out to hungry teams of programmers anywhere in the world, who can do it in a couple of weeks.

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