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    Have you heard about Paul Graham before?
    You should!
    Go visit his website and read his essays .

    also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham
    Quote
    In 1995 Graham and Robert Morris founded Viaweb, the first Application service provider. Viaweb’s software (written largely in Common Lisp) let users make their own Internet stores. In the summer of 1998 Viaweb was sold to Yahoo! for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, valued at $49.6 million. [1] At Yahoo! the product became Yahoo! Store.Graham has an A.B. from Cornell and a Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard, and studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.


    He is the author of the book Hackers and Painters:Big Ideas of the Computers Age – you can read most of the contents (for free!) from the link above.

    After reading some of his essays I am having a second thought about few things in my life:-
    1. I should read/learn about history, philosophy other things that can enrich life. Darn! I used to memorised name of inventors (Baird, Newton, Wright&Co) and read Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi (see I can write his full name without using Google!) , Nehru, when I was 9!

    2. How I should love problems?.

    3. Haha I am reading Freakonomics
    now, the first ever book that I have ever bought with the title ended with “nomics” – Very freaky!

    4. Start a startup? Wow! What a start!—berapa banyak start daa..

    5. Find out why I screwed up at the university ?

    6. I want to learn to write-my writing sucks!