Instead of "I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that," we're going to get a long, vague, and conspicuously even-handed discourse about the factors… - 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.

A painting is never finished. You just stop working on it.” This idea will be familiar to anyone who has worked on software.

For the foreseeable future, everything about starting a startup, both good and bad, will be accentuated. It will be even harder to figure out what to do, but the founders who get it right will be able to create amazing things even faster than they could before.