'What Makes a Hacker' — Steve Wozniak

Here are the Woz's defining characteristics of a hacker, from his July 11, 2004 keynote address at the Fifth HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) gathering in New York City:

• A sense of humor

• The ability to derive pleasure from jokes and the unexpected

• A tendency to strive for internal rather than external rewards

This just goes to show that being a hacker need not require great computer skills: in fact, you don't need any!

In Woz's hacker world there's plenty of room for a TechnoDolt©®™.

I've never met Steve Wozniak; I've never spoken with Steve Wozniak, though I have seen him on TV.

Way back in 2005 he did post a comment on bookofjoe — that was among the top 10 things that happened to me in 2005.

Maybe top 3.