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Paul Graham is a famous Scientist.

Our collection contains 7 quotes written by Paul, under the main topics: Customer Service - Entrepreneur - Sales - Coding & Programming.

7 Famous quotes by Paul Graham

"I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign"
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"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'"
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"Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part"
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"For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete"
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"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"
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"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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"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"
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