Mathematics considered harmful

I have not found in practice that programmers need to be mathematically inclined to become great software developers. Quite the opposite, in fact.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001249.html

If you ignore your right brain, and I'm talking generally about abstraction and aesthetics, then you can slap some code together that might work, but it also might be one hell of a maintenance nightmare. If you focus only on the right brain, you might have something that works, but is so utterly inefficient and personalized that you're the only person on Earth who could make sense of the code and maintain it.

Is Atwood's trolling predominantly right-brained or left-brained?