To follow the path:
look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master.
Languages :
Python,C/C++,Java,Perl and LISP
Attitude
The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.
No problem should ever have to be solved twice.
Boredom and drudgery are evil.
Freedom is good.
Attitude is no substitute for competence.
Skills:
- Learn how to program.
- Get one of the open-source Unixes and learn to use and run it.
- Learn how to use the World Wide Web and write HTML.
- If you don’t have functional English, learn it.
Status:
- Write open-source software
- Help test and debug open-source software
- Publish useful information
- Help keep the infrastructure working
- Serve the hacker culture itself
Style
Learn to write your native language well.
Read science fiction.
Join a hackerspace and make things
Train in a martial-arts form.
Study an actual meditation discipline.
Develop an analytical ear for music.
Develop your appreciation of puns and wordplay.
Not do
Don’t use a silly, grandiose user ID or screen name.
Don’t get in flame wars on Usenet (or anywhere else).
Don’t call yourself a ‘cyberpunk’, and don’t waste your time on anybody who does.
Don’t post or email writing that’s full of spelling errors and bad grammar.