If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.

When I designed projects in college, he said, let's sell it.

You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.

Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.