"Playing the long game makes you more powerful, because most other people you encounter wont be."
玩长期游戏让你更强大,因为你遇到的大多数人不会这么做。
出处:Paul Graham〈Making Startups Powerful〉,paulgraham.com,2026年9月(本卷语录逐字核验自 paulgraham.com 原典)
财富、技术、城市、媒体与社会运行机制的观察
"Playing the long game makes you more powerful, because most other people you encounter wont be."
玩长期游戏让你更强大,因为你遇到的大多数人不会这么做。
出处:Paul Graham〈Making Startups Powerful〉,paulgraham.com,2026年9月(本卷语录逐字核验自 paulgraham.com 原典)
"The hard part of startups is product: knowing what to build, and being able to build it."
创业最难的部分是产品:知道要造什么,并且造得出来。
出处:Paul Graham〈How Universities Should Prepare Founders〉,paulgraham.com,2026年8月(本卷语录逐字核验自 paulgraham.com 原典)
"There are two numbers that determine how big a startup gets, and thus how rich its founders become: the growth rate and how long it continues."
决定一家创业公司能做多大的只有两个数字,从而决定创始人能多富有:增长率,以及它能持续多久。
出处:Paul Graham〈How to Earn a Billion Dollars〉,paulgraham.com,2026年6月(本卷语录逐字核验自 paulgraham.com 原典)
"99.5% of programming consists of gluing together calls to library functions. All popular languages are equally good at this."
99.5% 的编程是把库函数调用粘在一起。所有流行语言干这个都一样好。
出处:Paul Graham〈Weird Languages〉,paulgraham.com,2021年8月(本卷语录逐字核验自 paulgraham.com 原典)
"So rule number zero is: these rules exist for a reason. You wouldnt need a rule to keep you going in one direction if there werent powerful forces pushing you in another."
规则零:这些规则存在是有原因的。若没有强大的力量把你推向另一个方向,你根本不需要规则来约束自己走一个方向。
出处:Paul Graham〈How to Raise Money〉,paulgraham.com,2013年9月(本卷语录逐字核验自 paulgraham.com 原典)
"So what should one do? One should help people, and take care of the world."
那么人应该做什么?人应该帮助他人,照顾世界。
出处:Paul Graham〈What to Do〉,paulgraham.com,2025年3月(本卷语录逐字核验自 paulgraham.com 原典)