I don't know what I'd do without AbeBooks. If it didn't exist I'd have to create it. - Paul Graham

If you're criticizing a good writer and the sentence you use to describe what they said is more unequivocal than the one they wrote, you've probably misinterpreted them, because a good writer says things as unequivocally as possible.

It’s obvious that biotech or software startups exist to solve hard technical problems, but I think it will also be found to be true in businesses that don’t seem to be about technology. McDonald’s, for example, grew big by designing a system, the McDonald’s franchise, that could then be reproduced at will all over the face of the earth. A McDonald’s franchise is controlled by rules so precise that it is practically a piece of software. Write once, run everywhere. Ditto for Wal-Mart. Sam Walton got rich not by being a retailer, but by designing a new kind of store.

OH: "With old friends you can put up with some amount of crazy, but no one wants to make new, crazy friends."