Steve Wozniak on Hacking, Entrepreneurship, and What is Most Important
May 02 2009
Of all the titles I could apply to myself, the sexiest sounding would probably be “hacker.” Hackers are, at their core, people who just aren’t satisfied with the default state of the world around them. We see something that’s less than what it could be, and we try to fix or “hack” it. Like most hackers, my worldview has always been slightly skewed in this way, to always look at broken things and desire to fix them. On a small scale, this can mean taking apart toasters, jailbreaking your iPhone, or reading binaries in hex. On larger scale, fixing what is broken can mean starting a foundation to find a cure for AIDS, discovering tomorrow’s ubiquitous energy solution, or creating the next social web phenomenon. The truest hackers find joy in the process, not necessarily the solution, so tinkering to our own needs is often sufficient. However, when the needs of particularly Jedi-like hacker meets the needs of the greater community, amazing things can happen.
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