Also see: Paul Graham’s Quotes, Brain Timar’s Quotes I like, Aaron Swartz’s Raw Meat, and Carman’s Quotes.

Je pense, donc je suis (Trans: I think, therefore I am).

Computer is the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Every business is a people business.

I wasn’t born ready but through years of experience I gained the confidence to feel ready.

Do not fear death. Death is always at our side. When we show fear, it jumps at us faster than light, but if we do not show fear, it casts its eye upon us gently and then guides us into infinity.

Informal language is the athletic clothing of ideas.

No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Sometimes, attempts at greatness end in tragedy. It’s a necessary evil. Because if there’s never any tragedy, then greatness would feel insignificant.

“Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping it’s life away. To hell with that,” he said, “shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.”

Last Updated: 2026-07-03