Hair-trigger geeks

The Safeway was completely empty save for us and a few other Microsoft people just like us — hair-trigger geeks in pursuit of just the right snack.  Because of all the rich nerds living around here, Redmond and Bellevue are very “on-demand” neighborhoods.  Nerds get what they want when they want it, and they go psycho if it’s not immediately available.  Nerds overfocus.  I guess that’s the problem.  But it’s precisely this ability to narrow-focus that makes them so good at code writing: one line at a time, one line in a strand of millions.

                Douglas Coupland, Microserfs