An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

It is difficult to make good scalable use of a CPU like you can of a graphics card. You certainly don't want 'better or worse' physics or AI in your game

One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!

Focused, hard work is the real key to success.

I like to think I'm pretty good at what I do.

Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.