What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.
Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
I refuse to be stereotyped.
Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.