Paul Graham (born 13 November 1964) is an English-born American computer scientist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and essayist. He is best known for...
Paul Graham (born 13 November 1964) is an English-born American computer scientist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and essayist. He is best known for his work on Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed "Yahoo! Store"), co-founding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his blog, and Hacker News. He is the author of several programming books, such as: On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). Technology journalist Steven Levy has described Graham as a "hacker philosopher".
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Every would-be startup founder should read this thread. https://t.co/tuOuLq8Qq1 -
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@sashachapin That's actually pretty good. As I read it I was thinking "I wonder if he'll mention knitting sentences together" and it was the first thing you mentioned. The only thing you got wrong was the reason for the "they are." That wasn't random; that was knitting too. -
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It's fascinating to read this guy because he's both very smart and has very little filter. You never know what he's going to say next. It's the parkour of writing.https://t.co/eqHjFNIBHb - See All Recommendations (46)
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The way to do it is piecemeal. You could just sit down and try reading Roberts's History of the World...
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