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"The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."
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"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."
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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
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"In my beginning is my end."
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"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
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"The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium."
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"You always think you're better than you are in the beginning."
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"Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big."
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"Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires."
Innovation
"Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet."
Beginning
"The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network."
Computer
"Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types."
Technology
"If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them."
Environment
"In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe."
Thinking
"For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet."
Home
"The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1."
Beginning
"The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers."
Technology
"A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet."
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