With ambition, you tend to get one step below what you aim for. So unless you try to be the best, you won't even be good. - Paul Graham

A selection process will be unbiased only if (a) the later performance of those selected is measured and (b) the selectors are judged according to this.

In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles. Sometimes you get excited about a new project and you want to work sixteen hours a day on it. Other times nothing seems interesting.

The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.