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Great software requires a fanatical devotion to beauty: the parts no one is supposed to see should be beautiful too, because unseen details become visible in the aggregate.

Drawn from what Paul Graham said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.

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What Paul Graham actually said

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  1. Paul Graham

    Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb

    Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you find that parts no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful too.

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