most people don't get those experiences because they'd never ask i've never found anybody that didn't want to help me if i asked him for help i always call him up i called up um this'll date me but i called up bill hewlett when i was twelve years old and he lives in palo alto his number was still in the phonebook and he answered the phone himself about yes i'm steve jobs i'm twelve years old i'm a student and high school and i want to build a frequency counter and i was wondering if you had any spare parts i could have and he laughed and he gave me the spare parts to build this frequency counter any gave me a job that summer and hewlett packard working on the assembly line putting nuts and bolts together and frequency counters and i was in heaven i've never found anyone who said no or hung up the phone when i called i just asked and when people ask me i try to be as responsive to pay that debt of gratitude back most people never ask and that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that stream about them you gotta act and you've got to be