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For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.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 thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.