One addition:

The elitist attitude may also have something to do with the inverse

relationship between spending time programming and spending time

socializing. If all one doing in your days is programming a computer,

i.e. telling it what to do, one needn't to utilize the more mamallian

soft-logic that goes behind social interactions. So one will start to

become a bit dull in those areas, and consequently will start to

offend people out of being in 'logic mode.'

I'm sure Mr. Spock had to deal with this all the time and I sure as

hell know that many people in my undergrad math department did!

~Kyle

That's a great point!