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"Back when I was an undergraduate in the early middle 1970s... a hacker was someone who wasn't really trained and was just hacking away at the stuff till they got it working... Of course, since then those hackers grew up and got educated, but they dragged the name along with them and made it a badge of honor."
— Randall Hyde, interviewed by Scott Hanselman (2025)