Hackers & Painters, Paul Graham
Liked quotes (list is incomplete.)
- Programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. - Page 31.
- You should only need comments when there is some kind of kludge you need to warn readers about, just as on a road there are only arrows on parts with unexpectedly sharp curves. - Page 224.
- Use your Software yourself all the time. - Page 85
Bookmarks
- Page 101: Small & Big Companies.
- Page 106: Software versioning.
- Page 108: Engineers & Entrepreneurs.
- Page 151: Static versus Dynamic.
- Page 217: Good and Bad design.
- Page 221: Programmers & Painters.
- Page 160: Essay -> Essayer(French.) -> “To try”.
- Page 168: Future language design considerations.
- Page 170: Choosing a technology.
- Page 175: Choosing the programming language.
- Page 208: Language designer mindset.
- Page 9: John Nash.
- Page 20: Creating beautiful things.
- Page 23: Hackers, Companies & Product Managers.
- Page 43: Great work & Ideas.
- Page 48: Math & Open-mindness.
- Page 116: Expensive versus Ordinary.
- Page 67: Support & Engineering.
- Page 84: Hackers & Business (Startups).
- Chapter 12: Beating the Averages - Mostly about Lisp.
- Chapter 13: Revenge of the Nerds - again more Lisp.