Trying to make founders describe their products in simple everyday language is like trying to push together the north poles of two magnets. - Paul Graham

Quote may seem a bit of a foreign concept, because few other languages have anything like it. It's closely tied to one of the most distinctive features of Lisp: code and data are made out of the same data structures, and the quote operator is the way we distinguish between them.

There's no switch inside you [high school students] that magically flips when you turn a certain age or graduate from some institution. You start being an adult when you decide to take responsibility for your life. You can do that at any age.

The reason PowerPoint is so popular is the same reason Bezos banned it: it saves you from having to think.