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

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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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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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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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