Hacker and Painter
黑客与画家
May 2003
(This essay is derived from a guest lecture at Harvard, which incorporated an earlier talk at Northeastern.)
When I finished grad school in computer science I went to art school to study painting. A lot of people seemed surprised that someone interested in computers would also be interested in painting. They seemed to think that hacking and painting were very different kinds of work-- that hacking was cold, precise, and methodical, and that painting was the frenzied expression of some primal urge.
我读完计算机本科以后，去艺术学校学习绘画。许多人感到奇怪，喜欢计算机的人也会喜欢美术吗？他们大概认为编程序和画画是两种完全不同的工作，编程需要冷静，精密，和正确的方法，而画画是表达某种狂热的情感。
Both of these images are wrong. Hacking and painting have a lot in common. In fact, of all the different types of people I've known, hackers and painters are among the most alike.
这种印象是不对的，编程和画画有很多共同之处，实际上，在我认识的不同类型的人中间，画家和黑客是最相似的。
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