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.
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
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See also On Lisp — another book by Paul Graham
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External links Paul Graham's essays online, including some of the essays in the book Slashdot Review: Hackers & Painters Dabblers and Blowhards: Essay by a hacker and painter.