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. Their code will be beautiful, even if their desks are buried, and their bills are left unpaid. Hackers are generally not concerned by conventional rewards such as social approval or money. They are attracted by challenges and excited by interesting toys.