#hackers

As a systems hacker, you must be prepared to do savage things, unspeakable things, to kill runaway threads with your bare hands, to write directly to network ports using telnet and an old copy of an RFC that you found in the Vatican.

"Last weekend, I had the great fortune to visit All Hands Active, an up-and-coming hackerspace in Ann Arbor, Michigan."

"They produce not only code but content, documentation, opinions — they care about what’s out there and what they are putting out there."

"Matt craps on a bunch of ridiculous ideas about programming and code that Hollywood can't seem to stay away from."

"Below you will find a list of the 20 coolest, funniest, dare I say sexiest hackers and computer geeks that have graced the silver screen."

"I remember the grey day, I remember the rain drizzling across the street and against the booth when I realized my box, my little teenage piece of the phone system, was gone forever."

"What follows, you see, is an amazing video compilation of some of the more impressive productions of the C64 demoscene."

"But to Brain's likely great surprise, I did not die, but in fact woke up, enjoying the restful 3 hours of sleep I just got, amazed at what I'd just seen, and distracted, ever so much, from the horrible pain for a while."

"NYU student Brian has a secret: He and his friends pirate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of illicit Hollywood movies in their spare time."

"In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the difficulty of developing the answer."

"But you, sir, are no painter."

"Turns out there is no magic inside, and that by opening it you make the magic happen; this is sometimes more interesting than the box itself."