![]() ![]() Levy found them to be “adventurers, visionaries, risk-takers, artists” rather than “nerdy social outcasts or 'unprofessional' programmers who wrote dirty, 'nonstandard' computer code.”įor this book, Levy talked to many different hackers, who were active from the 1950s until the 1980s.Īt the beginning, Levy introduces many important hacker figures and machines. He also wanted to present a more accurate view of hackers than the one most people had. ![]() ![]() Levy decided to write about the subject of hackers because he thought they were fascinating people. Computers can change your life for the better.You can create art and beauty on a computer.Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race or position.Mistrust authority-promote decentralizatioin.Access to computers-and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works-should be unlimited and total.As phrased by Levy, the principles of the Hacker Ethic are: ![]() The book is particularly notable for its popularization, and perhaps coinage, of the phrase "hacker ethic," and its codification of its principles. ![]()
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