Paul's writing inspires me more than anything has in years

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Book:		Hackers & Painters
Subject:		Paul's writing inspires me more than anything has in years
Date:		2004-06-12 17:05:36
From:		Derek Sivers at CD Baby

Rating: I stumbled across Paul's website a year ago, and was severly shaken by his writing. His ideas have inspired me more than anything has in years. So much so, that I started writing my echoed thoughts in my O'Reilly blog. His essay "Hackers and Painters" resonated with me because, coming from my music background, I had always felt that programming is like songwriting. His essays about how the programming language shapes the way you think made me write about the glass ceiling I felt with new features I was learning. But hands-down, his ideas on bottom-up programming have changed the entire way I look at all the programming I do. THANK YOU Paul for the most inspiring essays I've read since Brian Eno. :-)