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The recipe for great work is very exacting taste plus the ability to gratify it; it is easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty.

Drawn from what Paul Graham said

taste

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

Who should design software, and how?under our view: One person of taste has to be in charge, because design by committee is bad design

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What Paul Graham actually said

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  1. Paul Graham

    Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb

    Don't ignore those voices. Cultivate them. The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

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