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It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial atmosphere for the right sort of unruliness - that it is a home not just for the smart, but for the smart-alecks. And hackers are invariably smart-alecks. If we had a national holiday, it would be April 1st.

—from Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, a book by Paul Graham

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