Paul Graham Quotes
Top 48 wise famous quotes and sayings by Paul Graham
Paul Graham Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Paul Graham on Wise Famous Quotes.
If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get exceptional, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage.
And for the same reason, as a bunch of guys who get together to go hunting. They don't actually hate you. They just need something to chase.
Everyone in the sciences secretly believes that mathematicians are smarter than they are. I think mathematicians also believe this. At
If you can keep hope and worry balanced, they will drive a project forward the same way your two legs drive a bicycle forward.
Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.
People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously.
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that techincally inept business types are known as suits.
Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.
If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble.
If you could replace high-school yearbooks, that could be a lot of money. It's so clearly waiting for someone to come along.
Most makers make things for a human audience. And to engage an audience you have to understand what they need.
Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.
In a big company, you can do what all the other big companies are doing. But a startup can't do what all the other startups do.
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.
Get a version 1.0 out there as soon as you can. Until you have some users to measure, you're optimizing based on guesses.
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work.
The standard to compare your software to is what it could be, not what your current competitors happen to have.
Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.
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.