In England, at least, corruption only became unfashionable … - Paul Graham

" "
In England, at least, corruption only became unfashionable (and in fact only started to be called “corruption”) when there started to be other, faster ways to get rich.

Paul Graham

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

About Paul Graham

Paul Graham (born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Full Quote All quotes from Paul Graham Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Paul Graham:

Peter Thiel Erik Naggum Seth Godin Cory Doctorow Naval Ravikant

Additional quotes by Paul Graham

Many if not most philosophical controversies are artifacts of trying to using natural language at a higher resolution than it will support.

Figuring out what a startup should say to investors is strangely useful for figuring out what it should actually do. Most people treat these questions as separate, but ideally they converge. If you can cook up a plausible plan to become huge, you should go ahead and do it.

The reason AI coding works so well is that the source code of the median app was already slop before LLMs.

In England, at least, corruption only became unfashionable (and in fact only started to be called “corruption”) when there started to be other, faste… - Paul Graham

About Paul Graham

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI

Additional quotes by Paul Graham

Limited Time Offer