Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. ... What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

Success is not determined by the number of Degrees in ones possession, but by the DEGREE at which you apply all Knowledge gained through failure...

Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.

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