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For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.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

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

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

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.