“ Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity. ”
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“ Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. ”
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“ On average, the deeper people’s knowledge of a topic, the more calmly they talk about it. ”
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“ The way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things. ”
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“ Intellectual humility is a critical trait for would-be founders, perhaps for anyone really ambitious. ”
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“ Generalization: The only way to learn how to program is to write programs. ”
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“ There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student. ”
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“ You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary and believe things that are false. ”
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“ Trying to think of startup ideas doesn't merely yield few good ideas; it yields bad ideas that sound plausible enough to fool you into working on them. ”
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“ It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ So hackers start original, and get good, and scientists start good, and get original. ”
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“ Google never did any advertising. They're like dealers; they sell the stuff, but they know better than to use it themselves. ”
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“ Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part. ”
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“ This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder. ”
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“ Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you find that parts no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful too. I'm not claiming I write great software, but I know that when it comes to code I behave in a way that would make me eligible for prescription drugs if I approached everyday life the same way… ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.". ”
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“ Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity. ”
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“ Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity. ”
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“ So hackers start original, and get good, and scientists start good, and get original. ”
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“ In both painting and hacking there are some tasks that are terrifyingly ambitious, and others that are comfortably routine. It's a good idea to save some easy tasks for moments when you would otherwise stall. ”
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“ Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do. ”
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“ Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part. ”
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“ Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do. ”
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“ Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity. ”
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“ Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.". ”
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“ 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. ”
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