It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

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

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.