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赞美另类双语故事 IN 1956 William Whyte argued in his bestseller, “The Organisation Man”, that companies were so in love with “well-rounded” executives that they fought a “fight against genius”. Today many suffer from the opposite prejudice. Software firms gobble up anti-social geeks. Hedge funds hoover up equally oddball quants. Hollywood bends over backwards to accommodate the whims of creatives. And policymakers look to rule-breaking entrepreneurs to create jobs. Unlike the school playground, the marketplace is kind to misfits. 1956年威廉·怀特在他的畅销书籍《组织人》中提出了一个观点。他认为公司过于喜爱那些“全才型”的总裁，以致于许多公司已经到了“和天才为敌”的地步。今时今日，这种偏见体现在相反的方面。软件公司大肆招收不合群的极客[注1]。对冲基金同样急于吸入怪异的宽客[注2]。好莱坞竭尽全力来迁就创意人才的心血来潮。政治家们则指望打破规章的创业家来制造就业。和学校操场不同，市场对于这些另类分外和善。 Recruiters have noticed that the mental qualities that make a good computer programmer resemble those that might get you diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome: an obsessive interest in narrow subjects; a passion for numbers, patterns and machines; an addiction to repetitive tasks; and a lack of sensitivity to social cues. Some joke that the internet was invented by and for people who are “on the spectrum”, as they put it in the Valley. Online, you can communicate without the ordeal of meeting people. 招聘人士已经注意到一个优秀电脑编程员的心理特质非常接近于阿斯伯格综合症[注3]患者特点：对于一些狭窄的课题有强迫性的兴趣，热爱数字、规律和机器，对重复性的工作着迷，对于社交信号则置若罔然。正如硅谷人开玩笑所说的那样，互联网是那些“位于自闭症光谱”[注4]上的人为了自己而发明的。在网上，你可以和别人联系，而不需要承受见面带来的煎熬。 Wired magazine once called it “the Geek Syndrome”. Speaking of internet firms founded in the past decade, Peter Thiel, an early Facebook investor, told the New Yorker that: “The people who run them are sort of autistic.” Yishan Wong, an ex-Facebooker, wrote that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder, has “a touch of Asperger’s”, in that “he does not provide much active feedback or confirmation that he is listening to you.” Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, says he finds the symptoms of Asperger’s “uncomfortably familiar” when he hears them lis