If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble. - Paul Graham

The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.

If I were back in high school and someone asked about my plans, I'd say that my first priority was to learn what the options were. You [high school students] don't need to be in a rush to choose your life's work. What you need to do is discover what you like. You have to work on stuff you like if you want to be good at what you do.

Could civil liberties really be a cause, rather than just an effect? I think so. I think a society in which people can do and say what they want will also tend to be one in which the most efficient so- lutions win, rather than those sponsored by the most influential people. Authoritarian countries become corrupt; corrupt countries become poor; and poor countries are weak.