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Paul Graham
Scientist
About the author
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.
Paul Graham,
Scientist
#Ideas
#Business
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.
Paul Graham,
Scientist
#Now
#Danger
#Design
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,
Scientist
#Thinking
#Thought
#Language
#Pen
#Programming
For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
Paul Graham,
Scientist
#People
#Corporate
I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.
Paul Graham,
Scientist
We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30.
Paul Graham,
Scientist
#Now
#Selling
#Beer
Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.
Paul Graham,
Scientist
#Conservative