7 quotes by Paul Graham

“Business can learn about new conditions the same way a gene pool does. I'm not claiming companies can get smarter, just that dumb ones will die.” — Paul Graham

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“So I'll tell you now: bad s--t is coming. It always is in a startup.” — Paul Graham

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“When the disaster strikes, just say to yourself, ok, this was what Paul was talking about. What did he say to do? Oh, yeah. Don't give up.” — Paul Graham

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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.” — Paul Graham

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“Mere rate of shipping new features is a surprisingly accurate predictor of startup success.” — Paul Graham

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“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.” — Paul Graham

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“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.” — Paul Graham

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