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Regarding the "your greatest enemy is the back button" quote-- the earliest citations on HN are http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1136272 http://news.ycombina
by michael_dorfman 16y ago
Regarding the "your greatest enemy is the back button" quote-- the earliest citations on HN are http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1136272 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1136272 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1136272 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1136272, attributing it to "one of the founders of BackType".
Personally, I think Patio11 put a nice twist on it here, though: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1686784 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1686784
- paraschopra 16y agoI personally thought PG made it but couldn't find a citation.
- michael_dorfman 16y agoIt could be, but I couldn't find it either. Or, I should say, Google couldn't find it.
- benohear 16y agoIIRC he mentioned that in his Mixergy interview.
- steveklabnik 16y ago"Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy." - Tim O'Reilly, 2006. http://radar.oreilly.com/2006/08/piracy-is-progressive-taxation.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2006/08/piracy-is-progressive-taxat...
- zach 16y agoPG at Startup School, 2006: The median visitor will arrive with their finger poised on the Back button. Think about your own experience: most links you follow lead to something lame. Anyone who has used the web for more than a couple weeks has been trained to click on Back after following a link. So your site has to say "Wait! Don't click on Back. This site isn't lame. Look at this, for example." http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html I'm not sure how it got its current epigrammatic form, but it's surely become more succinct in the course of being repeated to hundreds of YC companies since then.