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With my newfound interest in the Mac and OS X, my techie side has been stimulated and I've been re-exploring realms that I had largely left behind upon leaving highschool. While doing so, I came across an interesting article at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
This section, in particular, fascinates me:
"To be a hacker, you have to develop some of these attitudes. But copping an attitude alone won't make you a hacker, any more than it will make you a champion athlete or a rock star. Becoming a hacker will take intelligence, practice, dedication, and hard work.
Therefore, you have to learn to distrust attitude and respect competence of every kind. Hackers won't let posers waste their time, but they worship competence — especially competence at hacking, but competence at anything is good. Competence at demanding skills that few can master is especially good, and competence at demanding skills that involve mental acuteness, craft, and concentration is best.
If you revere competence, you'll enjoy developing it in yourself — the hard work and dedication will become a kind of intense play rather than drudgery. That attitude is vital to becoming a hacker."
I wonder... if you alter that article just a bit... replace the word competence with the word excellence, for example... anyone else see what I'm getting at? *giggles softly* And once again, my fields of interest collide into one another....
This section, in particular, fascinates me:
"To be a hacker, you have to develop some of these attitudes. But copping an attitude alone won't make you a hacker, any more than it will make you a champion athlete or a rock star. Becoming a hacker will take intelligence, practice, dedication, and hard work.
Therefore, you have to learn to distrust attitude and respect competence of every kind. Hackers won't let posers waste their time, but they worship competence — especially competence at hacking, but competence at anything is good. Competence at demanding skills that few can master is especially good, and competence at demanding skills that involve mental acuteness, craft, and concentration is best.
If you revere competence, you'll enjoy developing it in yourself — the hard work and dedication will become a kind of intense play rather than drudgery. That attitude is vital to becoming a hacker."
I wonder... if you alter that article just a bit... replace the word competence with the word excellence, for example... anyone else see what I'm getting at? *giggles softly* And once again, my fields of interest collide into one another....
