Good design looks easy. Like great athletes, great designer… - Paul Graham

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Good design looks easy. Like great athletes, great designers make it look easy. Mostly this is an illusion.

Paul Graham

Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age · May 1, 2004 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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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Good design looks easy. Like great athletes, great designers make it look easy. Mostly this is an illusion. - Paul Graham

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