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Description
You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn’t even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It’s about... read more
First Sentence
Linus Torvalds says in his Prologue that, for the hacker, "the computer itself is entertainment," meaning that the hacker programs because he finds programming intrinsically interesting, exciting, and joyous.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Pekka Himanen (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Linus Torvalds (Preface)
- Manuel Castells (Epilogue)
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