Quotes by : Paul Graham

If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. Like....

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business....

Users are a double-edged sword. They can help you improve your language, but they can also deter you....

People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take....

At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them....

Keep your identity small.

Paying attention is more important to reliability than moving slowly. Because he pays close attention,....

If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now.

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

Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed....