> "Back when the original Whole Earth Catalog was having a heyday in the mid-70s, two products were introduced which we recommended heartily. One was the Vermont Castings wood stove, the other was the Apple personal computer. Both cost a few hundred dollars, both were made by and for revolutionaries who wanted to de-institutionalize society and empower the individual, both embodied clever design ideas and good business sense, and both became famous successes."
> "A 'hacker,' in the emerging definition, is anyone who pushes the edges of the possible and permissible. In Signal are techniques for hacking English, music, audio cassettes, postcards, rubber stamps, video, diagrams, robots and the nervous system, to name a fraction of the myriad represented here. In all of these realms the distance to the edge is not far, and the distance from one to another is no distance at all."
> "Back when the original Whole Earth Catalog was having a heyday in the mid-70s, two products were introduced which we recommended heartily. One was the Vermont Castings wood stove, the other was the Apple personal computer. Both cost a few hundred dollars, both were made by and for revolutionaries who wanted to de-institutionalize society and empower the individual, both embodied clever design ideas and good business sense, and both became famous successes."
> "A 'hacker,' in the emerging definition, is anyone who pushes the edges of the possible and permissible. In Signal are techniques for hacking English, music, audio cassettes, postcards, rubber stamps, video, diagrams, robots and the nervous system, to name a fraction of the myriad represented here. In all of these realms the distance to the edge is not far, and the distance from one to another is no distance at all."