Hackers & Painters

{{Short description|Book by Paul Graham}}

{{Infobox book

| name = Hackers & Painters

| author = Paul Graham

| image = Hackers & Painters.jpg

| caption = Book cover

| publisher = O'Reilly Media

| pub_date = 2004

| isbn = 0-596-00662-4

| dewey = 005.1092

| congress = HD8039.D37

| oclc = 55499541

| pages = 271

| website = {{URL|http://www.paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html}}

}}

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age is a collection of essays from Paul Graham discussing hacking, programming languages, start-up companies, and many other technological issues.{{cite web|title=Hackers & Painters - Paul Graham|url=http://www.paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html|publisher=paulgraham.com|accessdate=15 March 2014}}{{cite web|last=Linster|first=Greg|title=Book Review: Hackers & Painters|url=http://coffeetheory.com/2010/11/15/book-review-hackers-painters/|publisher=coffeetheory.com|accessdate=15 March 2014|archive-date=28 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130628112134/http://coffeetheory.com/2010/11/15/book-review-hackers-painters/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|last=Delio|first=Michelle|title=Embracing the Art of Hacking|url=https://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2004/05/63506?currentPage=all|publisher=wired.com|accessdate=15 March 2014}}{{cite web|last=Bradley|first=Tony|title=Book Review: Hackers and Painters|url=http://netsecurity.about.com/od/readbookreviews/fr/aapr080804.htm|publisher=netsecurity.about.com|accessdate=15 March 2014|archive-date=15 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315201737/http://netsecurity.about.com/od/readbookreviews/fr/aapr080804.htm|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Hackers & Painters|url=http://www.summary.com/book-reviews/_/Hackers-And-Painters/|publisher=summary.com|accessdate=15 March 2014|archive-date=28 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161028061510/http://www.summary.com/book-reviews/_/Hackers-And-Painters/|url-status=dead}}

"Hackers & Painters" is also the title of one of those essays. The image on its cover is 'The Tower of Babel' by Pieter Bruegel.{{Cite web |last=Haigh |first=Seb |date=2017-11-22 |title=#BookAWeek: Hackers & Painters |url=https://medium.com/bookaweek/bookaweek-hackers-painters-97c468bf5477 |access-date=2024-02-15 |website=bookaweek |language=en}}

Table of contents

  1. Why Nerds Are Unpopular
  2. Hackers and Painters
  3. What You Can't Say
  4. Good Bad Attitude
  5. The Other Road Ahead
  6. How to Make Wealth
  7. Mind the Gap
  8. A Plan for Spam
  9. Taste for Makers
  10. Programming Languages Explained
  11. The Hundred-Year Language
  12. Beating the Averages
  13. Revenge of the Nerds
  14. The Dream Language
  15. Design and Research

Publication data

  • {{cite book |first=Paul |last=Graham |title=Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age |publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc. |year=2004 |isbn=9780596006624 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/hackerspaintersb00grah }}

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