If we were talking about Europe in 1000, or most of the third world today, the standard misquotation would be spot on. - Paul Graham

The harder the task, the less you care about people's race or sex or whatever, either in the racist sense or the diversity sense. You're so desperate simply to find anyone who can do it well that you don't think about anything else.

People often email me with big-sounding ideas (reinvent commerce, change the way people meet, transform scientific research), and the bigger the idea sounds, the less interested I am. Truly big ideas don't sound big initially.

If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies.