Paul Graham

"There's no switch inside you that magically flips when you turn a certain age or graduate from some institution. You start being an adult when you decide to take responsibility for your life. You can …"

"One thing that leads us astray here is that the selector seems to be in a position of power. That makes him seem like a judge. If you regard someone judging you as a customer instead of a judge, the e…"

"Consulting is where product companies go to die."

"The most dangerous form of procrastination is unacknowledged type-B procrastination , because it doesn't feel like procrastination. You're "getting things done." Just the wrong things."

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

"It's not so important what you work on, so long as you're not wasting your time. Work on things that interest you and increase your options, and worry later about which you'll take."

"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…"

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