At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.
I would go 0-30 before I would go 0-9. 0-9 means you beat yourself, you psyched yourself out of the game.