On: You can increase your intelligence

[hackinthebochs]

I'm no authority but I'm gonna have to disagree. Hackers as understood on this forum are people who find the shortest path to an intended outcome. This usually takes a novel way of looking at the system. But it by no means requires a complete understanding of it. Hacking requires a clever insight that allows you to quickly accomplish your goal. Total understanding is usually too time consuming for the hacker.

[ankrgyl → hackinthebochs]

To clarify, my definition of hacking is inspired by this http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

[lukifer → hackinthebochs]

Wisdom is knowing which shortcuts to take. But there are no shortcuts to wisdom.