Everyone in the sciences secretly believes that mathematicians are smarter than they are. I think mathematicians also believe this. - Paul Graham
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Everyone in the sciences secretly believes that mathematicians are smarter than they are. I think mathematicians also believe this.
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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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