Here's Paul Graham's explanation of why he quoted himself using an anagram. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554915

> (It turns out if you want to write one-sentence essays, you have to attribute them to someone else.)

A concise summary of the use case for twitter.

Seems like people did enjoy the news at the time https://twitter.com/taraploughman

Also, I think he changed it. It used to read something like, "The more confident you are, the less you need the props".

Thanks did not know that.