You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary and believe things that are false.
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You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.
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A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
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Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.
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If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
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Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.
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