I know there were groups of children who were interested in sports and there were children who were interested in literature and… these friends of mine were almost all… well, some of them were interested in music, but that’s a curious thing, that my impression is that most mathematicians are attracted to certain kinds of classical music, complicated things, whereas very few musicians are attracted toward mathematics:  it’s a very unsymmetrical thing and… of course, one generous theory is that the musicians don’t need mathematics because they’re already dealing with very complicated abstract structures very well, and maybe in many respects it’s the same… it uses the same parts of brains, but I don’t, I’ve never seen any attempts to study this.

But I seems to me, most of the things I can remember discussing with friends were… were technical things and inventions and ideas about how to make things that did things, rather than…  I don’t remember ever discussing social matters very much; maybe we were all a little bit autistic.