22 ordspråk av Paul Graham
Paul Graham
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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Because hackers are makers rather than scientists, the right place to look for metaphors is not in the sciences, but among other kinds of makers.
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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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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.
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For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
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I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.
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I think he still loves the game. That's what coach does. He's a coach, 100 percent. He could conceivably come back. I don't think coach has lost any of his competitive fire.
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In both painting and hacking there are some tasks that are terrifyingly ambitious, and others that are comfortably routine. It's a good idea to save some easy tasks for moments when you would otherwise stall.
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In previous elections, we've had voting stations overrun by panicky mobs, and there's been a bit more obvious intimidation.
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It is clear that a substantial section of the public believes what she did was undermining good governance, irrespective of the rights and wrongs of this particular case. This suggests the presidency will have to reformulate the guidelines in an appropriate manner.
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Nerds just don't happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as prophylactic measure against stupidity.
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She was the type of person you just felt was going to succeed in whatever she did. She was quite lively and outgoing.
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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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So hackers start original, and get good, and scientists start good, and get original.
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The Summer Founders Program fixes the common problem with working at a startup, which is that it's very lonely. You do nothing but work and sleep and no one understands the situation you are in, and friends don't know why it takes three days for you to call them back.
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