Paul Graham

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student. ↗

— Paul Graham

#hackers #humor #inspirational #painters #paul

Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. ↗

— Paul Graham

#age

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. ↗

— Paul Graham

#startups #money

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it. ↗

— Paul Graham

#creativity #taste #work #age

I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right. ↗

— Paul Graham

#inspirational

If you can keep hope and worry balanced, they will drive a project forward the same way your two legs drive a bicycle forward. ↗

— Paul Graham

#age

If a writer rewrites an essay, people who read the new version are unlikely to complain that their thoughts have been broken by some newly introduced incompatibility. ↗

— Paul Graham

#age

If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble. ↗

— Paul Graham

#prediction #age

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'. ↗

— Paul Graham

#coincidence #dressing #good #good ideas #ideas

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. ↗

— Paul Graham

#already #expressing #language #pen #pencil