Paul Graham: News from the Front

Post by abstractbill » Wed, Sep 05, 2007, 4:46 PM UTC

marrone wrote: post #24

I liked this article, if for the simple fact that it can only help my cause (I graduated, though not from a prestigious school)! The whole time I was going to school I was super impatient to get done so I could actually get working on something real. I was really just after the piece of paper they give you at the end (though I never attended my graduation to get that paper, and the original was sent to the wrong hous…

Post by brlewis » Wed, Sep 05, 2007, 4:47 PM UTC

jey wrote: post #11

Anyone have that awesome quote from Bowling for Columbine where Moore is interviewing South Park co-creator Matt Stone and Stone explains the supposed consequences of not getting into honors classes in the 3rd grade?

Post by corentin » Wed, Sep 05, 2007, 4:50 PM UTC

pg wrote: post #12

cperciva wrote: post #8

I did my D.Phil. at Oxford University, and my B.Sc. at Simon Fraser University; while SFU is one of Canada's best universities, it clearly doesn't have the stature of Oxford or Harvard. Were the students at Oxford more intelligent than the students at SFU? No. Were they more motivated? No. Are there jobs for which I'd rather hire an Oxford alumnus than an SFU alumnus? Absolutely. The largest advantage of a great univ…

> when was the last time that a YC-funded startup really did anything new? Considering how many there are of them, probably within the last couple days. But instead of me giving you an example to which you will predictably reply "that's not really new," how about you giving us an example of a non-YC startup you think is doing something really new, so we can see what level of really-newness it would take to satisfy yo…

Post by mynameishere » Wed, Sep 05, 2007, 4:56 PM UTC

Jd wrote: post #3

Analogue: no one ever gets penalized for upvoting comments that have already been upvoted several times. Same basic idea.

Post by aston » Wed, Sep 05, 2007, 4:58 PM UTC

dpapathanasiou wrote: post #29

aston wrote: post #15

First, I'd just like to point out that PG is in an interesting place to report that college doesn't matter, having himself attended two Ivy League schools. There are two arguments happening here. The first is that entrepreneurship and business success are not so well correlated with where you go to undergrad. The second is that where you go to college doesn't make much of a difference in life in general. I won't real…

being able to drop the H-bomb You do know that's a sexual euphemism, right? ;)