If you have things or are involved with things that turn on, it's going to have code. And there are so many people - let's pick on the historians - even as a historian, let's say I ended up going the road of being a historian, just knowing some basic scripts, any kind of automation would have made me a 10 times better historian because I wouldn't have to sit there changing every file name to "1234" and then "12345." It can have a transformative value.

You can throw - and we've seen plenty of these kinds of companies - millions of dollars in advertising for a website or a service, and in the end if it's not useful no one's going to use it.

I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.

It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

There is a much bigger issue with student loan rates, the cost of tuition; those are some huge problems that need to be resolved.

Having that kind of endorsement and having Paul Graham's readership coming to your site and contributing to it and building the foundation of the community was just a really invaluable way to start Reddit.