More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Access to computers—and anything that might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!
Hackers believe that essential lessons can be learned about the systems—about the world—from taking things apart, seeing how they work, and using this knowledge to create new and even more interesting things. They resent any person, physical barrier, or law that tries to keep them from doing this.
“If hackers are born, then they’re going to get made, and if they’re made into it, they were born.”
You would hack, and you would live by the Hacker Ethic, and you knew that horribly inefficient and wasteful things like women burned too many cycles, occupied too much memory space.
Bureaucracies were always threatened by people who wanted to know how things worked. Bureaucrats knew their survival depended on keeping people in ignorance, by using artificial means—like locks—to keep people under control.
He envisioned it as a system for people to form clubs around, the center of little Tom Swift Terminal karasses of knowledge.
Am I crazy or is this a Vonnnegut reference?
