108 Quotes by Paul Graham

Keep your identity small.

People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously.

Paying attention is more important to reliability than moving slowly. Because he pays close attention, a Navy pilot can land a 40,000 lb. aircraft at 140 miles per hour on a pitching carrier deck, at night, more safely than the average teenager can cut a bagel.

The way ro really do big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things

If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now.

Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline.

The standard to compare your software to is what it could be, not what your current competitors happen to have.

People commonly use the word 'procrastination' to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what's happening as merely not-doing-work. We don’t call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.

It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.