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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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Intelligence
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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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Technology
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color – not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. – Henri Matisse

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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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Perhaps Id like to design cars, but I dont think Id be much good at it. – Jonathan Ive

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If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed. – Tom Watson

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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. – Katherine Mansfield

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I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We havent a hope. I know the presiding judge too: Ive had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked. – Alphonse Karr

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