The Small Programs that mean a lot

Today I came to the realization that I have been using Putty for about 7 years now with no problems. Putty is a lightweight ssh client for Windows. I've been using it ever since I started programming in 2002. It works great and it's standalone. It's these little open-source programs that usually stay true to the spirit of programming. You sit down, you write some code that you love writing, and you offer it to the world and hope that they come learn from or you learn from it through criticism. Either way, it's not tainted by ambitions of wealth, just fueled by a desire to help others. That's what I aspire for, writing code that could help the world and not motivated by foolish dreams of recognition. But as they say, I guess I'm still young and life has not hardened me yet.