If only he did. Many people took a lot of advice from him, but nobody took the advice on Lisp. That was exactly what I realized in 2007, when I started readin

If only he did. Many people took a lot of advice from him, but nobody took the advice on Lisp. That was exactly what I realized in 2007, when I started reading his essays, that the opportunity here was to take excellent advice that nobody else was going to take. Now, some people do learn Lisp on his recommendation, the thing is too only a very few--perhaps only one--will actually also be able to turn that into the other thing he speaks of at length, becoming a great founder. I would say the two things pull away from each other. And technologic fashions have pulled in a direction diametrically opposite to his vision until only three years ago, to the point he announced in an interview Viaweb's technology "was a lot more sophisticated than it needed to be."