Hackers and Painters
BlogPaul GrahamJun 14, 2003
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The essay that named PG's first book. Programming is closer to painting than to math or engineering. You learn by doing, not by studying. You build things you don't fully plan. The best programmers are people who think of programming as a creative act, not a clerical one.
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!Image 1: Hackers and PaintersMay 2003 _(This essay is derived from a guest lecture at Harvard, which incorporated an earlier talk at Northeastern.)_ When I finished grad school in computer science I went to art school to study painting. A lot of people seemed surprised that someone interested in…
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