Paul Graham

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.