Hahaha, I'm not sure "we hackers" can take credit for him -- he's Ayn Rand's creation, after all, and she didn't even use a typewriter. Although, on the subject of "Hackers and Blank", her essays on writing always very much echoed my feelings about programming.

I collected some illustrative quotes from the book in this blog post:

http://foohack.com/?p=32

I think you wanted to link

http://foohack.com/2007/10/required-reading-for-web-develope...

Say, well that's odd. My short URLs don't work unless you're signed in. I suspect WP-Supercache is to blame.

Thanks for fixing the link.

This works: http://foohack.com/index.php?p=32