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If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 perc

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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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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Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. – Confucius

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Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. – Ambrose Bierce

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If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong. – Arlen Specter

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The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesnt really come in one specific department. So even if something hasnt happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through. – Tyrese Gibson

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