“At any given time, there are only about ten or twenty places where hackers most want to work, and if you aren't one of them, you won't just have fewer great hackers, you'll have zero.”

—  Paul Graham

"Great Hackers" http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html, July 2004

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English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist 1964

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