Interesting reads

Please note I do not agree with everything listed here; quite the contrary, the most interesting essays tend to be the ones I disagree with the most.

• The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, by Marc Andreesen
• Beating the Averages, by Paul Graham
• A Plea for Lean Software, by Niklas Wirth
• The Humble Programmer, by Edsger W. Dijkstra
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar, by Eric S. Raymond
• The GNU Manifesto, by Richard Stallman
• Analog Museum
• Understanding C/C++ Strict Aliasing
• Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal