Intelligent people can translate the most idiotic sentences to be meaningful and articulate. That's great and all, I do it too. Just know what you're doing.
Here is my list. The other person has a small mind, but you guys should already know that.
1. Burn bridges to the ground. People you grew up with are not the relationships you made after having decided what you will do with your life.
2. Leave your family behind, they will only drag you down.
3. Reinvent your field of interest. The methodoligies used to progress it to it's current level most certainly weren't through, accurate, or designed from a large perspective.
4. After you grow up from asking questions for other people to answer, begin to ask questions no one knows the answer to. Find answers to those questions which are important to you.
5. Look around you, observe the people of your city, observe how it was designed, learn why it is dysfunctional. People are stupid, so don't let them have any say so in your life.
6. Computer Science is largely untapped. It's a great field for thinkers and builders to make their own. We will soon have an intelligence explosion and those who are controlling it will reign supreme. Be one of those people.
7. Never ever depend on the analysis of another person. If someone is influential to you and it is affecting your decisions in life. Stop. Learn enough of what you think they know in order to make better assessments.
You filthy dog. Tesla can by no means be compared to that nut jobs. I don't recall Stevie inventing anything, he just knew how to take credit for other peoples work, and how to sue others who were surpassing his company.