Who's Who
At the beginning, Levy introduces many important hacker figures and machines. Among them are: John Draper (also known as Captain Crunch), infamous phone phreaker; Bill Gates, Harvard dropout and “cocky wizard” who wrote Altair BASIC; Richard Greenblatt, the “hacker's hacker”; Steve Jobs, visionary; Marvin Minsky, “playful and brilliant" MIT professor who headed the MIT AI Lab; Richard Stallman, The Last of the True Hackers; and many, many others. Among the machines mentioned are the Altair 8800, Apple II, Atari 800, IBM PC, PDP-1, TX-0, and many others.
Read more about this topic: Hackers: Heroes Of The Computer Revolution
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“Are you one who looks on? Or one who lends a hand?—Or one who looks away, steps aside? ... Third question of conscience.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“When the idle poor become the idle rich, you’ll never know just who is who, or which is which.”
—E.Y. Harburg (1898–1981)