Unless I missed a message... no-one seems to have mentioned "Hackers and Painters", the essay (http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html) and book (http://books.google.com/books?id=B4dk0tYPrckC&printsec=frontcover&dq=hackers+and+painters&source=bl&ots=PQ1k17Gj8X&sig=UddP_liM4OlzqepjSIJoELor7Bk&hl=ga&ei=ZKWwS4zhD6T-0gTxv_CXDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=&f=false) by Paul Graham.
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