Quotes About Paul Graham

That averaging gets to be a problem. I think the single biggest problem afflicting large companies is the difficulty of assigning a value to each person's work.

You can't trust the opinions of the others, because of the Blub paradox: they're satisfied with whatever language they happen to use, because it dictates the way they think about programs.

If we were talking about Europe in 1000, or most of the third world today, the standard misquotation would be spot on.