People who do great things look at the same world everyone else does, but notice some odd detail that's compellingly mysterious.
Paul Graham, What You'll Wish You'd Known
This speech was really something special. Thanks for posting it. My favorite sections:
..."If it takes years to articulate great questions, what do you do now, at sixteen? Work toward finding one. Great questions don't appear suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is not to search for them-- not to wander about thinking, what great discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd have made it.
The way to get a big idea to appear in your head is not to
Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules: