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title: Reading List - Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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tags: [ readinglist/read ]
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# Title: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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## Author: Levy, Steven
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**Started Reading**: unknown
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**Finished Reading**: unknown
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[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8646752-hackers)
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#readinglist/read
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I love this book and have read it multiple times. Fuck the reviewers on goodreads. This book is fantastic.
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### Highlights
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> "When a piece of equipment wasn't working, it was "losing"; when a piece of equipment was ruined, it was "munged" (mashed until no good); the two desks in the corner of the room were not called the office, but the "orifice"; one who insisted on studying for courses was a "tool"; garbage was called "cruft"; and a project undertaken or a product built not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere involvement, was called a "hack".
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> "...to qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style, and technical virtuosity."
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> "Then someone like Marvin Minsky might happen along and say, "Here is a robot arm. I am leaving this robot arm by the machine." Immediately, nothing in the world is as essential as making the proper interface between the machine and the robot arm, and putting the robot arm under your control, and figuring a way to create a system where the robot arm knows what the hell it is doing."
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[[Reading List Index]]
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