Paul Graham Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.”

“I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.”

“If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.”

“In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.”

“Startups often have to do dubious things.”

“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.”

“One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.”

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

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