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Type: Scientist Quotes Year of Birth: 1964 Find on Amazon: Paul Graham Related Authors: Thomas Huxley Jean Rostand Alexis de Tocqueville Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Paul Nurse Kenneth G. Wilson Peter D. Mitchell |
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 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. Paul Graham Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'. Paul Graham 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 Paul Graham For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. Paul Graham I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign. 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 |
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