How To Become a Hacker

Here's an article by Eric Steven Raymond that offers advice on how to win friends and influence 
people - provided they're hackers.

It includes links to such illuminating pieces as The HTML Hell page, containing such memorable paragraphs as:
"Surfers learn quickly that for every ten 'under construction' signs that go up, maybe two will ever come down before the heat-death of the Universe. This is stupid. HTML is not rocket science and prototyping pages is not a slow process. Anybody who can't find the time to clean the construction signs off their pages should yank them and take up a hobby better matched to their abilities, like (say) drooling, or staring at the wall."

Not to mention, the enlightening Loginataka (there, I just mentioned it):
"The true Way to the Knowledge of the Source is not the timid and footling way of the Student, but the Divine Foolery of the Hacker. Hack, then; strive against Mighty Problems, have joy in thy Striving, and let the Crashes fall where they may (maintaining the while, for the Good of thy Karma, a Rigorous Backup Policy)".

Read on... if you dare.