Re: Hackers and Painters

[Peter Busser <busser () m-privacy de>]

Hi!

> ``Hackers & Painters'': Is this science? I think Graham's point by
> multiple-times saying hacking is not science, but somehow an art, means
> hackers don't need the formality of science to create (and by "maker" I
> think he's trying to mean "creator"; where creator holds conceptual
> abstraction+design+implementation).  One quote only:

I like to compare hackers and scientists with architects and construction 
builders. An architect can be an artist, but doesn't have to be one. Most 
buildings are built using a few standard design rules, nothing artistic about 
it. Only a few buildings are works of art. The same goes for programming. 
Most programs are built around a few well known design principles. Only a few 
programs are works of art.

Groetjes,
Peter.
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