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Sounds right to this conservative techie. Most brilliant people are both perfectionists and idealists. They want to live/build the perfect world. Like Richard Stallman (Open Source God) wants to do away with all money. He wants to live in the Star Trek world. Problem is, nobody really knows how that would work.

Plus I think there may be a difference between engineering types and computer science types. I'm not sure if I can put my finger on it, but I'll guess: Engineering types have to be a bit more logical and think further ahead. Just plowing ahead on your first idea can cause a circuit to blow up or an engine to blow if you don't consider most if not all of the variables. CS types can be a little looser. If your first ideas fail, just try something else, eventually it works "good enough". Their minds are trained differently and they apply those thought processes to life problems.