I'll take the skeptical approach and say that "hacker" is a word used by certain people to define certain other people, and that we're as likely to figure out a

I'll take the skeptical approach and say that "hacker" is a word used by certain people to define certain other people, and that we're as likely to figure out a good definition of "hacker" as we are of "love" or of "life". Personally, I see a hacker as somebody that changes things in an unexpected way. It's the unexpected that makes somebody a hacker instead of a coder or an entrepreneur.