Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: '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.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: '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.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Paul Graham: 'For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/13/23 Quote Meanings 11/13/23 William Congreve: 'Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.' Read More