“Luisa knew how to use her own ignorance as an icebreaker in conversations. Izzy was full of people who were skewed toward the Asperger’s end of the social spectrum, and there was no better way to get them to start talking than to ask them a technical question.”

—  Neal Stephenson, book Seveneves

"Pioneers and Prospectors"
Seveneves (2015), Part One

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