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Paul Graham
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January 01, 1964
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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 Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham avg rating 4.09 — 211 ratings — published 2004 2 editions |
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ANSI Common LISP by Paul Graham avg rating 4.12 — 40 ratings — published 1995 |
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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 Possibility by Paul Graham avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2007 2 editions |
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End of an Age by Paul Graham avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1999 |
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Empty Heaven: Photographs from Japan 1989-1995 by Paul Graham avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1995 |
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Paul Graham by Paul Graham avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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Paul Graham: American Night by Paul Graham avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2003 |
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ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1999 |
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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."
— Paul Graham
— Paul Graham
"There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student."
— Paul Graham (Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age)
— Paul Graham (Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age)
"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that techincally inept business types are known as "suits.""
— Paul Graham
— Paul Graham
