Quotes

“Planning per se isn’t good. It’s sometimes necessary, but it’s a necessary evil — a response to unforgiving conditions. It’s something you have to do because you’re working with inflexible media, or because you need to coordinate the efforts of a lot of people. If you keep projects small and use flexible media, you don’t have to plan as much, and your designs can evolve instead.”

— Paul Graham

“You can’t have a lot of good ideas without also having a lot of bad ones.”

— Paul Graham

A dollar saved is 2 dollars earned

– MeIr

Don’t see purpose where there isn’t — Paul Graham / Greek

The word “essay” comes from the French verb “essayer”, which means “to try”. An essay, in the original sense, is something you write to try to figure something out. This happens in software too. I think some of the best programs were essays, in the sense that the authors didn’t know when they started exactly what they were trying to write.

Paul Graham

This much seems clear: either you can adapt sophisticated, complex systems to try to manage the complications, or you can simplify everything.

Ricardo Semler

Bureaucracies are built by and for people who busy themselves proving they are necessary, especially when they suspect they aren’t

Ricardo Semler