All information should be free. Mistrust authority - promote decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their hacking not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position. You create art and beauty on a computer. Computers can change your life for the better.
Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help.
Hackers normally have a high intelligence, a consuming curiousity, and a facility with intellectual abstractions. They are stimulated by novelty. Most hackers are relatively individualistic and anti-conformist. Hackers don't like tedium, nondeterminism, or the boring little tasks that go with maintaining a normal existence. They tend to be careful and orderly in their intellectual lives and chaotic elsewhere.