Hackers and Painters

http://paulgraham.com/hp.html
Just an interesting paper I found regarding the similarities between hacking and painting

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Certain "small" groups, like everyone with an actual interest in computer science?
The only people who abuse the term to refer to cracking (without the qualifier of "black hat", which is a compromise most people are happy with) are the media, script kiddies, and clueless Javafags..