True hackers are intelligent, they have to be. Either they do really great in school because they have nothing better to do, or they don't do so good because school is terribly boring. And the ones who are bored aren't that way because they don't give a shit about learning anything. A true hacker wants to know everything. They're bored because schools teach the same dulll things over and over and over, nothing new, nothing challenging.
True hackers are curious and patient.
True hackers want to learn, or want to satisfy their curiosity, that's why they get into the system. To search around inside of a place they've never been, to explore all the little nooks and crannies of a world so unlike the boring cess-pool we live in. True hackers are disgusted at the way things are in this world. All the wonderful technology of the world costs three arms and four legs to get these days. True hackers are quiet.