A lot of having taste about something is just caring about it enough to be honest with yourself, so that you can get past "I like what I like" to "Is… - Paul Graham

A startup is like a mosquito. A bear can absorb a hit and a crab is armored against one, but a mosquito is designed for one thing : to score. No energy is wasted on defense. The defense of mosquitos, as a species, is that there are a lot of them, but this is little consolation to the individual mosquito.

One of the less publicized benefits of the open source movement is that it has made it easier to learn to program.

All you need to be sure of to start a startup is that you want to try it to see what it's like, that you're capable of working very hard, and that you know about something important that most other people don't.