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“Every runner knows this. You run and run, mile after mile, and you never quite know why. You tell yourself that you’re running toward some goal, chasing some rush, but really you run because the alternative, stopping, scares you to death.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

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“It seems wrong to call it “business.” It seems wrong to throw all those hectic days and sleepless nights, all those magnificent triumphs and desperate struggles, under that bland, generic banner: business. What we were doing felt like so much more. Each new day brought fifty new problems, fifty tough decisions that needed to be made, right now, and we were always acutely aware that one rash move, one wrong decision could be the end. The margin for error was forever getting narrower, while the stakes were forever creeping higher.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

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“This probably also means that if and when we ever meet another intelligent life form in this universe, their first words are not likely to be "Take me to our leader." They're more likely to say "Party on, dude!”
― Linus Torvalds, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

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“I did learn fairly early that the best and most effective way to lead is by letting people do things because they want to do them, not because you want them to. The best leaders also know when they are wrong, and are capable of pulling themselves out. And the best leaders enable others to make decisions for them.

Let me rephrase that. Much ofLinux's success can be attributed to my own personality flaws: 1) I'm lazy; and 2) I like to get credit for the work of others.”
― Linus Torvalds, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

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“The theory behind open source is simple. In the case of an operating system, the source code-the programming instructions underlying the system-is free. Anyone can improve it, change it, exploit it. But those improvements, changes, and exploitations have to be made freely available. Think Zen. The project belongs to no one and to everyone. When a project is opened up, there is rapid and continual improvement. With teams of contributors working in parallel, the results can happen far more speedily and success fully than if the work were being conducted behind closed doors.”
― Linus Torvalds, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

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