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“Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.” — John Carmack

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. — Steve Wozniak

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong. –Bill Vaughan

I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun. Thomas Alva Edison

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. –Wayne Gretzky

“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. ” — John Carmack

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system. — Bill Gates

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. –Virgil Garnett Thomson

“The best way to sell yourself is to show what you have produced, rather than tell people what you know, what you want to do, or what degrees you have.” — John Carmack

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. –Lily Tomlin

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar

The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree. — Bill Gates