Hackers - Heroes of the Computer Revolution

My first book and probably the most popular, even sixteen years after publication. Hackers gets into the mindset of those people who push the computer past the envelopes of expections–sitting at the keyboard these are artists, pioneers, explorers.

It is here that I introduced the concept of The Hacker Ethic:

• Access to computers should be unlimited and total.
• Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative
• All information should be free.
• Mistrust authority–promote decentralization.
• Hackers should be judged by their hacking.
• You can create art and beauty on a computer.
• Computers can change your life for the better.

The book is in three parts, exploring the canonical AI hackers of MIT, the hardware hackers who invented the personal computer industry in Silicon Valley, and the third-generation game hackers in the early 1980s.

Penguin, $14.00.

You can order Hackers directly from Amazon.com. Also available in Japan, UK (Penguin), and Italy.