Quite true. My brother is an audio technician, he does recordings for bands as well as the technical work in setting up studio's and such. He knows almost nothi

Quite true. My brother is an audio technician, he does recordings for bands as well as the technical work in setting up studio's and such. He knows almost nothing of programming and little of theoretical mathematics (outside that which he uses) yet when I talk with him about anything technical, I keep noticing he has the programmer/engineer/hacker/geek mind. People with a passion for anything technical tend to intuit concepts like abstraction and logic, even without being taught explicitly.