43 Quotes by Patrick Collison

One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development.

Presumably, what you want to do is work on something meaningful and significant with people you really admire.

In life, in the media, and everything, people focus way too much on founders.

'Entrepreneur' is a long, fancy French word, but it didn't seem like something you aspire to. It seemed normal, because whatever your parents do seems normal.

Being a public company certainly doesn't stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult.

In general, I have a lot of issues with the mythology of the founder.

There is a higher degree of operational excellence and rigor demanded of Stripe than of most companies.

It's inevitable that tough situations will come up, but it's how you react that is the challenge.

I myself am not religious, but yes, I certainly grew up in a very Catholic environment.