About Paul Graham

Programmer, essayist and cofounder of the startup accelerator Y Combinator. (b. 1964)

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• Make something people want.Y Combinator motto, from his essay Be Good (2008)
• Startups don't win by attacking. They win by transcending.Mean People Fail, essay (2014)
• Live in the future, then build what's missing.How to Get Startup Ideas, essay (2012)

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• The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice, their choice.Dwight D. Eisenhower
• We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace.Jimmy Carter
• Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.Barack Obama
• Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.Barack Obama
• The time is always right to do what's right.Martin Luther King Jr.
• We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.Martin Luther King Jr.

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