He's on a better list:

http://www.paulgraham.com/heroes.html

I've learned a lot from Rtm about various things, especially hacking, but not much about startups for the simple reason that we both learned about startups at the same time from the same experiences.

I'm a huge RTM fan. Can you please share some of what you learned from RTM when it comes to hacking? I'm guessing that would make a great essay.

It made a book, actually: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html