I'm always looking for ways to add network effects to a startup's idea. Investors love those. But network effects are genuinely good to have. So any … - Paul Graham

Trump's bullying only works (and only temporarily at that) because he's taking advantage of the high-trust customs and relationships established by more principled predecessors.

The reason I use vi instead of emacs is because when I got to grad school and tried to save a file on a Sun workstation, it froze the screen instead. It took me a couple days to find out what keys they'd remapped the save command to. In the meantime I started using vi.

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.