Paul Graham Quotes
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I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.
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Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too…
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For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
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If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if…
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If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
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When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea,…
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There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.
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Some people just get what they want in the world.
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Startups often have to do dubious things.
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Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.
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One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.
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A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
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Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.
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Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.
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We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now…
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