"The Computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you\'re willing to risk the consequences.
Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care? Consider. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age , by Paul Graham We are living in the Computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by Computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. "The Computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you\'re willing to risk the consequences