It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.
“I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.”
“I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.”