Immigration reform is crucial to keeping the US a tech superpower, as 95% of great programmers reside outside the US
ed,’ Top Tech Investor Warns Tweets: Sonali Sridhar / @jollysonali : Almost 30% of Hacker Schoolers are foreigners and amazing programmers. We feel the pain of not placing them acutely. http://paulgraham.com/95.html Steve Case / @stevecase : “This could easily be the defining mistake of this generation...and it costs nothing to fix” http://paulgraham.com/95.html #immigration @paulg Aaron Levie / @levie : The US immigration system takes for granted that we can always attract great talent. One day this may not be true. http://paulgraham.com/95.html Chris McCoy / @chrisamccoy : We've engineered around this @YourSports with cash + equity deals. “Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers in” http://bit.ly/1vhCOt9 by @pg Patrick Collison / @patrickc : http://paulgraham.com/95.html Unless you think the US should have far *fewer* engineers, I can't see how one can oppose doubling their number. Chris Dixon / @cdixon : PG on the the nutty anti-immigration arguments: http://twitter.com/... Chris Dixon / @cdixon : Paul Graham on why we need immigration reform. 100% agree. http://paulgraham.com/95.html Alex Wilhelm / @alex : “Seriously f**ked.” PG wants high-skill immigration reform, now http://paulgraham.com/95.html Sonal Chokshi / @smc90 : on importance of drawing best digital talent (esp bc innovation clusters/hubs effect) @paulg http://paulgraham.com/95.html http://twitter.com/... Sonal Chokshi / @smc90 : on importance of drawing best talent (esp. bc innovation clusters/ talent hubs effect) @paulg http://paulgraham.com/95.html http://twitter.com/... Mike Dudas / @mdudas : 95% of the world's best programmers live outside the US. We should let them live and work in this country: http://paulgraham.com/95.html via @paulg Thanks: @ryanm