I know it's a cliche, but I do think there's a difference between the lone high school weirdo who stayed up late learning Commodore 64/Apple IIe/386/whatever in

I know it's a cliche, but I do think there's a difference between the lone high school weirdo who stayed up late learning Commodore 64/Apple IIe/386/whatever internals and the person who learned how to program adequately well at university in order to get a "good career". I hesitate to use the word "passion" but you know what I mean. Anyway, the long and the short of it is it's the weirdos who are in short supply and I can't imagine why that would change anytime soon.