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• I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.
• Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design…
• For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
• If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop…
• If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
• When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a…
• There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.
• Some people just get what they want in the world.
• Startups often have to do dubious things.
• Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.
• One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.
• A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not…

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