Paul Graham

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.

In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

To me, tattoos are a way of people being able to express themselves and have other people look at them and get a little insight into who they are, without ever even saying a word to them.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.