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Paul Graham, né le 13 novembre 1964 à Weymouth, en Angleterre, est un programmeur, investisseur en capital risque et essayiste britannique. Il est l'auteur de On Lisp , ANSI Common Lisp et Hackers & Painters . Wikipedia  

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Paul Graham: Citations en anglais

“The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work. When you spend time having fun, you know you're being self-indulgent. Alarms start to go off fairly quickly. If I woke up one morning and sat down on the sofa and watched TV all day, I'd feel like something was terribly wrong. … But the same alarms don't go off on the days when I get nothing done, because I'm doing stuff that seems, superficially, like real work.”

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"How To Lose Time And Money"], July 2010

“The most dangerous form of procrastination is unacknowledged type-B procrastination [putting off important things to do unimportant things], because it doesn't feel like procrastination. You're "getting things done."”

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Just the wrong things.
"Good And Bad Procrastination"], December 2005

“If you try to solve a hard problem, the question is not whether you will use a powerful enough language, but whether you will (a) use a powerful language, (b) write a de facto interpreter for one, or (c) yourself become a human compiler for one.”

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"Revenge of the Nerds" http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html May 2002

“Competitors punch you in the jaw, but investors have you by the balls.”

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"How to Fund a Startup" http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html, November 2005

“The other thing that's different about the real world [compared to high school] is that it's much larger. In a large enough pool, even the smallest minorities can achieve a critical mass if they clump together.”

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"Why Nerds are Unpopular," February 2003

“While the nerds were being trained to get the right answers, the popular kids were being trained to please.”

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"Why Nerds are Unpopular," February 2003

“When those far removed from the creation of wealth -- undergraduates, reporters, politicians -- hear that the richest 5% of the people have half the total wealth, they tend to think injustice! An experienced programmer would be more likely to think is that all? The top 5% of programmers probably write 99% of the good software.”

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"How to Make Wealth" http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html, May 2004

“At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't.”

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"Taste for Makers" http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html, February 2002

“The best thing software can be is easy, but the way to do this is to get the defaults right, not to limit users' choices.”

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"The Other Road Ahead" http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html, September 2001

“Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.”

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"How To Lose Time And Money", July 2010

“The more you realize that most judgements are greatly influenced by random, extraneous factors—that most people judging you are more like a fickle novel buyer than a wise and perceptive magistrate—the more you realize you can do things to influence the outcome.”

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"Two Kinds Of Judgment", April 2007

“I think the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you.”

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"Good And Bad Procrastination", December 2005

“Nerds aren't losers. They're just playing a different game, and a game much closer to the one played in the real world.”

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"Why Nerds are Unpopular," February 2003

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