Paul Graham born in Weymouth, England
Paul Graham is born in Weymouth, Dorset. The family moves to the U.S. and he grows up outside Pittsburgh, where his father works as a physicist designing nuclear reactors and his mother takes raises him and his sister. He starts writing computer code in high school, including a program to predict the flight path of model rockets.
If I could go back and give my thirteen year old self some advice, the main thing I’d tell him would be to stick his head up and look around.