A “hacker” is a person who has gone past using his computer for survival (“I bring home the bread by programming”) to the next two stages [(“social life,” and “entertainment”)].
– Linus Torvalds in “What Makes Hacker’s Tick? a.k.a Linus’s Law”, prologue to Pekka Himanen’s The Hacker Ethic, 2001
See also: This Rich to Open Source (2022)