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Paul Graham




Paul Graham

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Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. In 2002 he described a simple statistical spam filter that inspired a new generation of filters. He's currently working on a new programming language called Arc, a new book on startups, and is one of the partners in Y Combinator.

Paul is the author of On Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1993), ANSI Common Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1995), and Hackers & Painters (O'Reilly, 2004). He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.

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Hackers and Painters: Big Idea... Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
avg rating 4.09 — 211 ratings — published 2004
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ANSI Common LISP ANSI Common LISP
by Paul Graham
avg rating 4.12 — 40 ratings — published 1995
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On LISP: Advanced Techniques f... On LISP: Advanced Techniques for Common LISP
by Paul Graham
avg rating 4.75 — 16 ratings — published 1993
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Paul Graham: A Shimmer of Poss... Paul Graham: A Shimmer of Possibility
by Paul Graham
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2007
2 editions
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End of an Age End of an Age
by Paul Graham
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1999
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Empty Heaven: Photographs from... Empty Heaven: Photographs from Japan 1989-1995
by Paul Graham
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1995
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Paul Graham Paul Graham
by Paul Graham
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2009
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Paul Graham: American Night Paul Graham: American Night
by Paul Graham
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2003
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ANSI Common Lisp ANSI Common Lisp
by Paul Graham
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The Adventures of Captain Kizz... The Adventures of Captain Kizzy and the Grapes
by Paul Graham
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006
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"If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. Like a lot of American kids, I read this book in school. Presumably it was not a coincidence. Presumably someone wanted to point out to us that we were savages, and that we had made ourselves a cruel and stupid world. This was too subtle for me. While the book seemed entirely believable, I didn't get the additional message. I wish they had just told us outright that we were savages and our world was stupid."
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"There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student."
Paul Graham (Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age)
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"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that techincally inept business types are known as "suits.""
Paul Graham
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