Hackers & Painters

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age is a collection of essays from Paul Graham discussing hacking, programming languages, start-up companies, and many other technological issues. "Hackers & Painters" is also the title of one of those essays. The image on its cover is 'The Tower of Babel' by Pieter Brugel.

Table of contents

 * 1) Why Nerds Are Unpopular
 * 2) Hackers and Painters
 * 3) What You Can't Say
 * 4) Good Bad Attitude
 * 5) The Other Road Ahead
 * 6) How to Make Wealth
 * 7) Mind the Gap
 * 8) A Plan for Spam
 * 9) Taste for Makers
 * 10) Programming Languages Explained
 * 11) The Hundred-Year Language
 * 12) Beating the Averages
 * 13) Revenge of the Nerds
 * 14) The Dream Language
 * 15) Design and Research