Quotes By Paul Graham
For [a product] to surprise me, it must be satisfying expectations I didn't know I had. No focus group is going to discover those. Only a great designer can.
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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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Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.
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You can\'t write or program well in units of an hour. That\'s barely enough time to get started. When you\'re operating on the maker\'s schedule, meetings are a disaster. ... We know we have to have some number of meetings. All we ask from those on the manager\'s schedule is that they understand the cost.
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