Alan Chan
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Phil Knight
“So much to do. So much to learn. So much I don’t know about my own life.”
Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Linus Torvalds
“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

Phil Knight
“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

Phil Knight
“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

Linus Torvalds
“A lot of people believe in working long days and doing dou­ble, triple, or even quadruple shifts. I'm not one of them. Neither Transmeta nor Linux has ever gotten in the way of a good night's sleep. In fact, if you want to know the honest truth, I'm a firm believer in sleep. Some people think that's just being lazy, but I want to throw my pillow at them. I have a perfectly good excuse, and I'm standing by it: You may lose a few hours of your produc­tive daytime if you sleep, oh, say, ten hours a day, but those few hours when you are awake you're alert, and your brain functions on all six cylinders. Or four, or whatever.”
Linus Torvalds, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

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