The only way to get through pain is to go through it.
In Russia, severity of laws is compensated for by their non-enforcement.
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has a name for. If you possibly can, work where there are no words for what you do.
Money is overrated. Truly new things rarely need an abundance of money. If that was so, billionaires would have a monopoly on inventing new things, and they don’t. Instead almost all breakthroughs are made by those who lack money, because they are forced to rely on their passion, persistence and ingenuity to figure out new ways. Being poor is an advantage in innovation.