Why not welcoming E.T.?

In his book The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company, David A. Price wrote that “One of the curious aspects of Pixar's story is that each of the leaders was, by conventional standards, a failure at the time he came onto the scene”. People tend to feel reassured in certain conformity, thus finger-pointing and rejecting differences until these differences have proven their evidences. So, why not welcoming E.T.? And as Bill Gates has said: “Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one”.

CB