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.
"Hackers & Painters" is also the title of one of those essays. The image on its cover is 'The Tower of Babel' by Pieter Bruegel.
Contents
Table of contents
Why Nerds Are Unpopular
Hackers and Painters
What You Can't Say
Good Bad Attitude
The Other Road Ahead
How to Make Wealth
Mind the Gap
A Plan for Spam
Taste for Makers
Programming Languages Explained
The Hundred-Year Language
Beating the Averages
Revenge of the Nerds
The Dream Language
Design and Research
Publication data
Graham, Paul (2004). Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age. O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN 9780596006624.