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Let us now attempt to briefly summarize what it means to be a hacker:
- **Hacker is a kind of artist who builds and creates** (though not every artist is a hacker!), [cracker](cracker.md) is someone who breaks and destroys, many times due to being less competent or unworthy of true hacking -- destroying something is easier than creating something.
- **Hacker greatly values freedom**, among which are the **freedom of [information](information.dm)**, **[free software](free_software.md)**, **[free speech](free_speech.md)**, **free thinking**, free access to computers etc. Therefore he supports sharing, even if it is called for example "[piracy](piracy.md)", and despises things going against said freedoms such as [proprietary](proprietary.md) software, [passwords](password.md) (preventing information freedom), [censorship](censorship.md), [copyright](copyright.md), [patents](patent.md), pretense and deceit etc.
- **Hackers are non-conformists, reject authority and don't respect social norms**; a hacker wears old cheap clothes, long hair and unkept beard without conforming to any fashion, he sees caring about looks as a wasted time that would better be spent by hacking computers. Hacker is a basement dwelling nerd without social life because he has rich inner intellectual life, he's usually a kisless virgin, even a [wizard](wizard.md), partly because of his looks but also again because typical adult life would require him to do less hacking.
- **Hacker greatly values [freedom](freedom.md)**, among which are the **freedom of [information](information.dm)**, **[free software](free_software.md)**, **[free speech](free_speech.md)**, **free thinking**, free access to computers etc. Therefore he supports sharing, even if it is called for example "[piracy](piracy.md)", and despises things going against said freedoms such as [proprietary](proprietary.md) software, [passwords](password.md) and [security](security.md) (preventing information freedom), [censorship](censorship.md), [copyright](copyright.md), [patents](patent.md), pretense and deceit etc.
- **Hackers are non-conformists, reject authority and don't respect social norms, hacking is a way of life**; a hacker wears old cheap clothes, long hair and unkept beard without conforming to any fashion, he sees caring about looks as a wasted time that would better be spent by hacking computers. Hacker is a basement dwelling nerd without social life because he has rich inner intellectual life, he's usually a kisless virgin, even a [wizard](wizard.md), partly because of his looks but also again because typical adult life would require him to do less hacking. He doesn't program for money, he literally lives his whole life as a hacker (a typical example is e.g. focusing on powers of two, such as aiming for 1024 words in his essays, rather than using powers of ten like normal people).
- **Hacker values [fun](fun.md) and playfulness** -- despite his serious dedication to the art, he hates seriousness of the business guys and "suits", as well as the self-centered, egoistic attitude of "modern hackers" who might see or present themselves as kind of [superheroes](hero_culture.md). A hacker will give his programs funny names rather than names that would make for a good business product, a hacker will insert jokes in his source code (e.g. [hex](hexadecimal.md) values such as 0xBEEFFACE), documentation and speech ([Jargon File](jargon_file.md) has a whole section on how hackers construct and use words).
- **Hacker aims for ingenuity, cleverness, elegance, [minimalism](minimalism.md), thinking out of the box** etc. As such he loves [math](math.md), puzzles, intellectual challenges (such as [code golfing](code_golf.md)) and despises ugly commercial ways of mainstream technology, i.e. that which is [bloated](bloat.md), hastily made to impress by visuals or cheap "killer features" while hiding ugly internals etc.
- **Hacker loves hacking and tinkering in itself -- hacking is the goal, not the means. Hacking is [art](art.md) and carries deep intellectual and even spiritual value.** To a hacker it is a joy to program computers and he aims for nothing more than enjoy endless hours of programming, programming is NOT a tool to achieve low goals such as monetary profit or mainstream fame. Many hackers claim that hacking is better than [sex](sex.md) (though it is questionable whether many of them have experience with the latter).