From a New Yorker profile of Sam Altman,
president of Y Combinator:
A blogger recently asked
Altman, “How has having Asperger’s helped and hurt you?” Altman told me, “I
was, like, ‘Fuck you, I don’t have Asperger’s!’ But then I thought, I can see
why he thinks I do. I sit in weird ways”—he folds up like a busted umbrella—“I
have narrow interests in technology, I have no patience for things I’m not
interested in: parties, most people. When someone examines a photo and says,
‘Oh, he’s feeling this and this and this,’ all these subtle emotions, I look on
with alien intrigue.”
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