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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. — Paul Graham

Pope John Paul II was unquestionably the most influential voice for morality and peace in the world during the last 100 years. — Billy Graham

You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers. — Paul Graham

We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them 'graham crackers.' — Paul Mooney

You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view. — Paul Graham

One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies. — Paul Graham

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. — Paul Graham

Everyone in the sciences secretly believes that mathematicians are smarter than they are. I think mathematicians also believe this. At — Paul Graham

If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about. — Paul Graham

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

Part of what software has to do is explain itself. So — Paul Graham

If you can keep hope and worry balanced, they will drive a project forward the same way your two legs drive a bicycle forward. — Paul Graham

Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. — Paul Graham

Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy. — Paul Graham

When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted. — Otto Graham

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that techincally inept business types are known as suits. — Paul Graham

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. — Paul Graham

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

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

If the hacker is a creator, we have to take inspiration into account. — Paul Graham

Looking at things from other people's point of view is practically the secret of success. — Paul Graham

If you have to choose between two theories, prefer the one that doesn't center on you. — Paul Graham

It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower. — Paul Graham

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired. — Paul Graham

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. — Paul Graham

The easy, conversational tone of good writing comes only on the eighth rewrite. — Paul Graham

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign. — Paul Graham

If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble. — Paul Graham

I love working with Paul Wesley. He's my best friend. — Katerina Graham

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

If you can imagine someone surpassing you, you should do it yourself. — Paul Graham

Most makers make things for a human audience. And to engage an audience you have to understand what they need. — Paul Graham

Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent. — Paul Theroux

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere. — Paul Graham

In the startup world, 'not working' is normal. — Paul Graham

Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself. — Paul Graham

Startups often have to do dubious things. — Paul Graham

Keep your identity small. — Paul Graham

The standard to compare your software to is what it could be, not what your current competitors happen to have. — Paul Graham

Graham Greene once said that life was lived in the first twenty years and the remainder was just reflection. So — Paul Kalanithi

In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses. — Paul Graham

Attacking an outsider makes them all insiders. — 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. — Paul Graham

Some people just get what they want in the world. — Paul Graham

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. — Paul Graham

If you could replace high-school yearbooks, that could be a lot of money. It's so clearly waiting for someone to come along. — Paul Graham

Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. — Paul Graham

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. — Paul Graham

Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part. — Paul Graham

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

The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about. — Paul Graham

The right way to collaborate, I think, is to divide projects into sharply defined modules, each with a definite owner, — Paul Graham

much in it,' said Paul, pushing the broadsheet across. 'You don't ask me — Winston Graham

would first meet Thomas Edison, Paul watched a man burn — Graham Moore

In order to console, there is no need to say much. It is enough to listen, to understand, to love. PAUL TOURNIER — Billy Graham

Empathy is probably the single most important difference between a good hacker and a great one. — Paul Graham

Just fix things that seem broken, regardless of whether it seems likes the problem is important enough to build a company on. — Paul Graham