Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (Paperback)

Paul Graham

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"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham

We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care?

Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Your phone has turned into a computer. So has your camera. Soon your TV will. Your car was not only designed on computers, but has more processing power in it than a room-sized mainframe did in 1970. Letters, encyclopedias, newspapers, and even your local store are being replaced by the Internet.

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham, explains this world and the motivations of the people who occupy it. In clear, thoughtful prose that draws on illuminating historical examples, Graham takes readers on an unflinching exploration into what he calls "an intellectual Wild West."

The ideas discussed in this book will have a powerful and lasting impact on how we think, how we work, how we develop technology, and how we live. Topics include the importance of beauty in software design, how to make wealth, heresy and free speech, the programming language renaissance, the open-source movement, digital design, internet startups, and more.

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「電腦世界就像一個知識的西部荒野,在這裡,如果你願意冒著風險,你可以用你的想法射擊任何你想要的人。」——來自保羅·格雷厄姆的《駭客與畫家:電腦時代的重大觀念》

我們生活在電腦時代,這個世界越來越多地由電腦程序員和軟件設計師設計和工程化,由自稱為駭客的人們所主導。這些人是誰?他們的動機是什麼?為什麼你應該關心?

請考慮以下事實:我們周圍的一切都在變成電腦。你的打字機已經消失了,被電腦取代。你的手機已經變成了一台電腦。你的相機也是如此。很快你的電視也會變成電腦。你的汽車不僅是在電腦上設計的,而且它的處理能力比1970年的一台佔據整個房間的大型機還要強大。信件、百科全書、報紙,甚至你當地的商店都被互聯網所取代。

保羅·格雷厄姆的《駭客與畫家:電腦時代的重大觀念》解釋了這個世界和佔據其中的人們的動機。格雷厄姆以清晰、深思熟慮的文字,借鑒了具有啟發性的歷史例子,帶領讀者毫不畏懼地探索他所稱之為「知識的西部荒野」。

本書討論的觀念將對我們的思維方式、工作方式、技術開發方式和生活方式產生強大而持久的影響。主題包括軟件設計中美感的重要性,如何創造財富,異端和言論自由,編程語言的復興,開源運動,數字設計,互聯網初創公司等等。」