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Hackers and Painters
Paul Graham argues that the hacker's true kin is not the scientist or engineer but the painter — and that understanding this changes everything about how software should be made, learned, and judged.
- A programming language should be a pencil, not a pen — let you scribble and smudge and smear, not sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee making polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.
- Hackers start original and get good. Scientists start good and get original.
- Unseen details combine to produce something stunning — like a thousand barely audible voices all singing in tune.
- “Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.”
- “There is always a big time lag in prestige. It's like light from a distant star.”