Paul Graham Quotes

A collection of quotes by Paul Graham.

Paul Graham is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, and is known for his influential essays on topics related to software and startups. Graham has made notable contributions to the field of programming languages and has co-founded numerous successful companies. He has also authored several books, including "Hackers & Painters" and "On Lisp." His expertise and insights have had a significant impact on the tech industry as a whole.

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastina

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

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Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of prematu

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 10

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 you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they d

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

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It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face conta

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 been duplicated by technology.