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* http://www.paulgraham.com
* HackersAndPainters
* "Saying that taste is just personal preference is a good way to prevent disputes. The trouble is, it's not true. You feel this when you start to design things." -- [http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html Taste for Makers]
* [http://www.paulgraham.com/copy.html Copy What You Like]: "How do you avoid copying the wrong things? Copy only what you genuinely like. That would have saved me in all three cases. I didn't enjoy the short stories we had to read in English classes; I didn't learn anything from philosophy papers; I didn't use expert systems myself. I believed these things were good because they were admired."
* <[[Brennen]]> Some good thinking in [http://www.paulgraham.com/usa.html this piece] about American design tendencies.