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date: 2018-04-06
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> - Access to computers—and anything that might teach you something about the way the world works—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, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.
> - You can create art and beauty on a computer.
> - Computers can change your life for the better.

[The Hacker Ethic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic), [Hackers: Heroes of Computer Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer_Revolution), by Steven Levy