Trying to make something timeless is like thinking about follow-through when kicking a football. In theory it shouldn't matter what happens to your f… - Paul Graham
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Trying to make something timeless is like thinking about follow-through when kicking a football. In theory it shouldn't matter what happens to your foot after the ball leaves it. But in practice thinking about where your foot will be later makes you put it in the right place now.
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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.
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