Paul Graham Quotes

"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
(Related: Design, Danger, Now)

"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
(Related: Thought, Language, Pen, Programming, Thinking)

"For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete."
- Paul Graham
(Related: People, Corporate)

"I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign."
- 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
(Related: Selling, Beer, Now)

"Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part."
- Paul Graham
(Related: Conservative)