It is occasionally useful to operate at the level of words … - Paul Graham

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It is occasionally useful to operate at the level of words rather than ideas — to literally not know what you're talking about — so long as you land back in ideas at the end of the trip.

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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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