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The world seemed cruel and boring, and I'm not sure which was worse.
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Competitors punch you in the jaw, but investors have you by the balls.
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There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating grad student.
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The most important thing is to be able to think what you want, not to say what you want.
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If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies.
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A programming language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of.
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While the nerds were being trained to get the right answers, the popular kids were being trained to please.
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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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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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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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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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Jessica and I have always worked hard to teach our kids not to be mean. We tolerate noise and mess and junk food, but not meanness.
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The world changes fast, and the rate at which it changes is itself speeding up. In such a world it's not a good idea to have fixed plans.
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Startups don't win by attacking. They win by transcending. There are exceptions of course, but usually the way to win is to race ahead, not to stop and fight.
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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.
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Software has to be designed by hackers who understand design, not designers who know a little about software. If you can't design software as well as implement it, don't start a startup.
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The first type of judgement is the type where judging you is the end goal... But in fact there is a second much larger class of judgements where judging you is only a means to something else.
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If you work on something you can finish in a day or two, you can expect to have a nice feeling of accomplishment fairly soon. If the reward is indefinitely far in the future, it seems less real.
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European public opinion will apparently tolerate people being fired in industries where they really care about performance. Unfortunately the only industry they care enough about so far is soccer.
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
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November 13, 1964
(age 59)
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