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)
• Do things that don't scale.Do Things that Don't Scale, essay (2013)
• Startups don't win by attacking. They win by transcending.Mean People Fail, essay (2014)

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• To be great is to be misunderstood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The best is the enemy of the good.Voltaire
• It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.Voltaire
• I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.Friedrich Nietzsche
• Only thoughts reached by walking have value.Friedrich Nietzsche
• Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.William James

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