Paul Graham

Person · Open Library

Works

42

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

698

Total plays

1,876

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

   · 1958 · cited 70,813x

2. “Mini-mental state”

   · 1975 · cited 68,268x

3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 46,786x

4. Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks

   · 2003 · cited 45,710x

5. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,455x

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Quotes

• “Architects know that some kinds of design problems are more personal than others. One of the cleanest, most abstract design problems is designing bridges. There your job is largely a matter of spanning a given distance with the least material. The other end of the spectrum is designing chairs. Chair designers have to spend their time thinking about human butts.”
• “The best thing software can be is easy, but the way to do this is to get the defaults right, not to limit users' choices.”
• “Software has to be designed by hackers who understand design, not designers who know a little about software. If you can't design software as well as implement it, don't start a startup.”
• “At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't.”
• “If you try to solve a hard problem, the question is not whether you will use a powerful enough language, but whether you will (a) use a powerful language, (b) write a de facto interpreter for one, or (c) yourself become a human compiler for one.”
• “As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last place in the world you'd want to live.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1964-11-13 ) November 13, 1964 (age 61) , Weymouth, Dorset , England

Citizenship

British American

Education

Cornell University ( BA ), Harvard University ( MS , PhD )

Known for

Viaweb , Y Combinator , Hacker News , Hackers & Painters

Spouse

Jessica Livingston ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2008 ) ​

Fields

Computer science

Thesis

The State of a Program and Its Uses (1990)

Website

paulgraham .com

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