The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.

Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.

The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.

The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.