The Hacker Ethic
Contributors: Manuel Castells (Epilogue)
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: February 12, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780375758782
First sentence: Linus Torvalds says in his Prologue that, for the hacker, "the computer itself is entertainment," meaning that the hacker programs because he finds programming intrinsically interesting, exciting, and joyous.