保罗•格雷厄姆,《黑客与画家》一书的作者,硅谷创业之父。1964年,出生于匹兹堡郊区的一个中产阶级家庭。父亲是设计核反应堆的物理学家,母亲在家照看他和他的妹妹。青少年时代,格雷厄姆就开始编程。但是,他还喜欢许多与计算机无关的东西,这在编程高手之中是很少见的。
保罗•格雷厄姆在康奈尔大学读完本科,然后在哈佛大学获得计算机科学博士学位。1995年,他创办了Viaweb,帮助个人用户在网上开店,这是世界上第一个互联网应用程序。1998年夏天,Yahoo!公司收购了Viaweb,收购价约为5000万美元。
此后,他架起了个人网站paulgraham.com,在上面撰写了许许多多关于软件和创业的文章,以深刻的见解和清晰的表达而著称,迅速引起了轰动。2005年,他身体力行,创建了风险投资公司Y Combinator,将自己的理论转化为实践,目前已经资助了80多家创业公司。现在,他是公认的互联网创业权威。
"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age , by Paul Graham We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care? Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Your phone has turned into a computer. So has your camera. Soon your TV will. Your car was not only designed on computers, but has more processing power in it than a room-sized mainframe did in 1970. Letters, encyclopedias, newspapers, and even your local store are being replaced by the Internet. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age , by Paul Graham, explains this world and the motivations of the people who occupy it. In clear, thoughtful prose that draws on illuminating historical examples, Graham takes readers on an unflinching exploration into what he calls "an intellectual Wild West." The ideas discussed in this book will have a powerful and lasting impact on how we think, how we work, how we develop technology, and how we live. Topics include the importance of beauty in software design, how to make wealth, heresy and free speech, the programming language renaissance, the open-source movement, digital design, internet startups, and more.
Paul Graham在这本书里除了狂挺Lisp和说了一些可能早两年少人明了现在明白人差不多都明白的道理,印象深的就这几句: “...with Lisp our development cycle was so fast that we could sometimes duplicate a new feature within a day or two of a competitor announcing it...
评分URL: http://www.dbanotes.net/review/Hackers_and_Painters.html 四月份读的最好的一本书是 Paul Graham 的大作 《黑客与画家》(中文版),这是一本能引发技术人思考的佳作,真正意义上的黑客精神、创业(Start-up)、编程语言,是这本技术散文集的三个主题。阮一峰的翻译很到...
评分(这是给《商业价值》写的《黑客与画家》,信息量比之前更多一些。) 《黑客与画家》是一本为黑客正名的技术散文集。一提到“熊猫烧香”、网络游戏盗号木马以及某某公司网站系统被人入侵的消息,人们总会联想到是“黑客”干的。实际上,黑客的本意并非如此。在计算机世界中,...
评分第一本:《黑客与画家》 第二本:《新机器的灵魂》 第三本:《设计原本》 《黑客与画家》从书名我们都能看出书中的内容并不深奥,作者最大的目的就是,通过这本书让普通读者理解我们所处的这个计算机时代,揭示它的发展轨迹,帮助你看清我们现在的位置和将来的方向。 《黑...
it changes your way of observing the world, although some I don't agree.
评分Chapter1 献给给每个九年义务的nerd
评分paul 的文笔实在太好,除了有关创业那两章,5-6章,其他都读完咯
评分重新理解nerds 和 hackers的概念,作者的视野和远见让人佩服。后半部分对于计算机语言的看法,对我这样的文科男来说有如云里雾里,好在并不单调,有很多有创见的观点值得学习。
评分先读的英文版之后嫌速度不够用又转回头看了中文版,这本书还是主要针对从事IT行业的人士,不过格雷厄姆很多的思想是很值得品味的。中间跳过了很多专业性很强的东西,对两部分很感兴趣。Nerds在青少年时期会遇到的种种被排挤的状态;如何看待“人云亦云”和“禁忌之言“。如何创造财富这个Topic不算能够理解,毕竟不是那个行业的人。多添一句,财富这种东西,我个人觉得不能看得太重,金钱会让人上瘾,迷惑视线,要时刻保持敬畏的态度对待。
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