Quote by Paul Graham
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

Other quotes by Paul Graham

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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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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design
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Intelligence
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. – Janis Joplin

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Intelligence

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. – Laurence J. Peter

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Intelligence

Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but its more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, its more like social intelligence. – Matt Walsh

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Intelligence

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. – Markus Wolf

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Intelligence

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The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, theyre going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him. – Jon Stewart

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legal