The linked article (and title) says:

> “There are hardly any startups in this batch that are bad,” Graham said.

But the following [1] says:

> Y Combinator founder Paul Graham said this he feels like the contracted size of this class means that there are essentially no weak startups in the bunch

There's a huge difference between "hardly any bad startups" and "essentially no weak startups" so it seems someone at techcrunch is misquoting pg.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/26/y-combinator-winter-2013-de...