Painters & Hackers

**reference: **http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html

中文版书名：《黑客与画家》
这本书是Paul Graham博客的一个合集，前后反复看了几次，感觉有所收获，下面是从书中摘下来的笔记。

Chapter 1. Why Nerds Are Unpopular

1. There is a strong correlation between being smart and being a nerd, and an even stronger inverse correlation between being a nerd and being popular. Being smart seems to make you unpopular.
2. Nerds serve tow masters. They want to be popular, certainly, but they want even more to be smart.
3. The popular kids learned to be popular, and to want to be popular, the same way the nerds learned to be smart, and to want to be smart.
4. Life between eleven and seventeen revolves far more around popularity than before or later.
5. People unsure of their own position will try to emphasize it by maltreating those they think rank below. That's why the poor whites in the United States are the group most hostile to blacks. The nervous Middle classes.
6. Unpopularity is a communicial diease.
7. Why is the real world more hospitable to nerds? I think the important thing about the real world is not that it's populated by adults, but that it's very large, and the things you do have real effects.
8. The warped little world we lived in was, I thought, the world. Because I didn't fit in this world, I thought that something must be wrong with me.
9. If I could go back and give my thirteen yeal old self some advice, the main thing I'd tell him would be stick his head up and look around.
10. As far as i can tell, the concept of the hormone-crazed teenager is coeval with suburbia. I think teenagers are driven crazy by the life they'are made to lead.
11. The mediocrity of American public schools has worse consequences than just making kids unhappy for six years. It breeds a rebelliousness that actively drive kids away from the things they've supposed to be learning.
12. Freaks and nerds were allies, and there was a good deal of overlap between them.
13. Misrule breeds rebellion; this is not a new idea. And yet the authorities still for the most part act as if drugs were themselves the cause of the problem.
14. The real problem is the emptiness of school life. We won't see solutions till adults realize that.
15. Merely understanding the situation they're in should make it less painful. Nerds are not losers. They're just plaing a different game, and a game much more closer to the one played in the real world. It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if look, you can beyond it even while you are still in it.
16. If life seems awful to kids, it's neither because hormones are turning you all into monsters (as your parents believe), nor because life actually is actually awful (as you believe). It's because the adults, who no longer have economic use for you, have abandoned you to spend years cooped up together with nothing real to do.

create time: 2016-12-1

to be continued...