Nope. Counterproof: http://paulgraham.com/good.html http://paulgraham.com/good.html "When you write something telling people to be good, you seem to be claimi

Nope. Counterproof: http://paulgraham.com/good.html http://paulgraham.com/good.html "When you write something telling people to be good, you seem to be claiming to be good yourself. So I want to say explicitly that I am not a particularly good person. When I was a kid I was firmly in the camp of bad." Having read and forgotten most of his essays over years, I could recall this in a minute. So probably there's more.