Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

by Paul Graham

After all, you only get one life. You might as well spend it working on something great.

Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot.

“The spirit of resistance to government,” Jefferson wrote, “is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.”

Software should do what users think it will.

From "Hackers and Painters"