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The only style worth having is the one you cannot help; setting out to develop a personal style is the wrong goal.

Drawn from what Paul Graham said

Subjectdesign

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

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What Paul Graham actually said

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  1. Paul Graham

    Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb

    But if you just try to make good things, you'll inevitably do it in a distinctive way, just as each person walks in a distinctive way. Michelangelo was not trying to paint like Michelangelo. He was just trying to paint well; he couldn't help painting like Michelangelo. The only style worth having is the one you can't help.

    Where this was said

    ↗Taste for Makerspaulgraham.com

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