Beautifully said! While I encourage you to read the relatively short text yourself, here's the summary: Hacking first requires a system -- any system -- with s

Beautifully said! While I encourage you to read the relatively short text yourself, here's the summary: Hacking first requires a system -- any system -- with some perceived rules. Then we need a hacker: someone who keeps looking for the truth and finds the actual rules the system operates on. While the hacker can just stop there having broken the illusion, sometimes he will "use his discoveries to hack the system, to transform the world". Playing by the actual rules instead of the perceived rules is initially what is called a hack.