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

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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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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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Intelligence
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The Homeland Security department doesnt have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they cant direct anything except inside their bureau. – David Hunt

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For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasnt due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. – Charles F. Bass

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Intelligence

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland. – Jim Ramstad

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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. – Michael Jordan

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