It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.

Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.

We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.