PaulGraham
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February 2002 I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." Taste.
Taste for Makers
Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented
There is a kind of mania for object-oriented programming at the moment, but some of the smartest programmers I know are some of the least excited about it.
October 2006 In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail.
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
