This is an important truth.<p>On a related note, I (and I suspect many other hackers) have a billion cute little applications I've written over the years that do very specific things in exactly the way I want them done.<p>The interesting thing to me is that I'm reluctant (embarrassed?) to release them because I'm afraid of the phantom snobbery that pervades engineering culture. Since my apps and utilities are "trivial," I fully expect to be ignored at best, or maybe scoffed at for my stupid, toy applications.<p>Then I thought, maybe that's an allegory for the whole software ecosystem... everyone's so afraid of being "trivial," that few people are willing to do one thing and do it really well.