Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.