This can't be overemphasized. My favorite (apocryphal) Einstein anecdote is the one where a society matron approaches him at a party and exclaims, "I don't know how you can deal with all that math. I have so much trouble with math." Einstein replies, "Lady, you can't imagine how much trouble I have with it."

s/math/computers, and that line comes in very handy in my own social life.