Paul Graham on Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity
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The Similarities Between Hackers and Painters
When I was in college studying programming, there was this idea floating around that programming was supposed to be like math. And what I found actually is that the interesting parts of programming, you can't really make scientific, let alone mathematical. So it seemed to me that programming at least, like writing software, what made you good at it was not what would make a scientist good at science. What makes an architect good is not a command of statics. It's something a little less organized than that. There's an aesthetic, it's aspect. Taste and a sense of design, and a certain knack, right?
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