“If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble.” — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. — Paul Graham Ambitious Copy Share Image
“Good design looks easy. Like great athletes, great designers make it look easy. Mostly this is an illusion.” — Paul Graham Designers Copy Share Image
“A lot of the statements that got people in trouble seem harmless now.” — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“Introducing change is like pulling off a bandage : the pain is a memory as soon as you feel it.” — Paul Graham Change Copy Share Image
“There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.” — Paul Graham College student Copy Share Image
Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired. — Paul Graham Business Copy Share Image
“The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.” — Paul Graham Creation Copy Share Image
What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“And the reason everyone doesn’t use Listp is that programming languages are not merely technologies, but habits of mind as well, and… — Paul Graham Habits Copy Share Image
“So although there may be, in certain specific moments (like your family, this month) a fixed amount of money available to trade… — Paul Graham Family Copy Share Image
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“If you can keep hope and worry balanced, they will drive a project forward the same way your two legs drive a… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to… — Paul Graham Customer Copy Share Image
When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies… — Paul Graham Big companies Copy Share Image
“When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's "form follows function," what they meant was, form should follow function. And if function is hard enough,… — Paul Graham Ed sullivan Copy Share Image
“A great programmer, on a roll, could create a million dollars worth of wealth in a couple weeks. A mediocre programmer over… — Paul Graham Money Copy Share Image
“Hackers are unruly. That is the essence of hacking. And it is also the essence of Americanness. It is no accident that… — Paul Graham Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“If language A has an operator for removing spaces from strings and language B doesn’t, that probably doesn’t make A more powerful,… — Paul Graham Technology Copy Share Image
“You need rich people in your society not so much because in spending their money they create jobs, but because of what… — Paul Graham Money Copy Share Image
“Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“A startup is like a mosquito. A bear can absorb a hit and a crab is armored against one, but a mosquito… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“As for building something users love, here are some general tips. Start by making something clean and simple that you would want… — Paul Graham Programming Copy Share Image
“When I was in art school, we were looking one day at a slide of some great fifteenth century painting, and one… — Paul Graham Art Copy Share Image
“I’ve programmed in all kinds of languages, said the tough old hacker as he eased up to the bar, and it don’t… — Paul Graham Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies… — Paul Graham Big companies Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid I was constantly being told to look at things from someone else’s point of view. What this… — Paul Graham Empathy Copy Share Image
“Of course, figuring out what you like to work on doesn't mean you get to work on it. That's a separate question.… — Paul Graham Artist Copy Share Image
“This is the kind of possibility that the pointy-haired boss doesn’t even want to think about. And so most of them don’t.… — Paul Graham Business Copy Share Image
“If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. Like a lot… — Paul Graham Books Copy Share Image
“Public school teachers are in much the same position as prison wardens.” — Paul Graham Prisons Copy Share Image
