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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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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people. – Calvin Klein

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Traditional horizontal search engines cannot always identify the target audience, niche or vertical industry of a page or site. Vertical search engines address this issue by the nature of their design. They identify sites according to more specific criteria and sometimes even by human input. – Marc Ostrofsky

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My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldnt change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures. – Douglas Trumbull

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For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design. – Michael Arad

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