Quote by Paul Graham
Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature opt

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design – designing too early what a program should do. – Paul Graham

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If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student. – Paul Graham

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Its hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasnt yet been duplicated by technology. – Paul Graham

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Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition. – Freeman Thomas

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Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. – Terence

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Intelligent design itself does not have any content. – George Gilder

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I did not direct my life. I didnt design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. Thats what life is. – B. F. Skinner

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