Paul Graham


Paul Graham's Favorite Quotes

Quote Author
"The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act." Tara Ploughman
"The condition of man is already close to satiety and arrogance, and there is danger of destruction of everything in existence." A Brahmin to Onesicritus, 327 BC, reported in Strabo's Geography
"Change breaks the brittle." Jan Houtema
"The sons of Hermes love to play,
And only do their best when they
Are told they oughn't;
Apollo's children never shrink
From boring jobs but have to think
Their work important."
W.H Auden, Under Which Lyre
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." Abelso & Sussman, SISP, preface to the first edition
"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all." Winston Churchill
"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay
"The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man." Richard Feynman