I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
“A fine genius in his own country, is like gold in the mine.”
“The difference between a good software person and a great software person is fifty to one, twenty-five to fifty to one, huge dynamic range.”
“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”
Einstein's account of his own motivation, attributing his work to persistent curiosity rather than to any unusual natural ability.