Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.
From Paul Graham
Startups often have to do dubious things.
If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.
It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.
For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.
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.
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.
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.
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