from Paul Graham | by Paul Graham

Had dinner with Daniel Gackle, who agreed that Japanese food must be his favorite cuisine after conceding that he couldn't imagine it losing in a pairwise comparison with any other.

Dan is one of the few people I talk to with whom Schopenhauer comes up organically in the conversation. He was a grad student in Russian literature at Stanford at one point. That's what first brought him to SV; software came later.