8+ Paul Graham Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Paul Graham quotes and sayings.

You only get one life. You might as well spend it working on something great. — Paul Graham

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. — Paul Graham

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. — Paul Graham

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'. — Paul Graham

Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part. — Paul Graham

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

We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30. — Paul Graham

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign. — Paul Graham