Quote of the Day
Posted on: 2006-06-26

From Paul Graham's essay 'The Power of the Marginal':

The eminent feel like everyone wants to take a bite out of them. The problem is so widespread that people pretending to be eminent do it by pretending to be overstretched.

http://paulgraham.com/marginal.html

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