The thing that strikes me most is how not like skills the skills are. What I mean by that is that skills in FATE are a lot more like what you would call stats in other games. Your strength and dexterity are skills but so is your fighting ability.
The skill chapter goes out of its way to inform GMs that the skills listed are very fluid and can be adapted, split up, or added to in whatever way suits the setting the characters find themselves in.
I like systems that allow the GM to show the players what type of world they are in instead of telling them. Skill lists in FATE provide this exceptionally.
