At any given time, there are only about ten or twenty places where hackers most want to work, and if you aren't one of them, you won't just have fewe… - Paul Graham

So if you can figure out a way to get in a design war with a company big enough that its software is designed by product managers, they’ll never be able to keep up with you. These opportunities are not easy to find, though. It’s hard to engage a big company in a design war, just as it’s hard to engage an opponent inside a castle in hand-to-hand combat.

The phrase “personal computer” is part of the language now, but when it was first used it had a deliberately audacious sound, like the phrase “personal satellite” would today.

The unusual thing about Nintendo is that they're good at both hardware and stories. It's very rare for a company to be good at two such different things, but powerful if you can pull it off.