Out here, in Cyberspace, our knowledge and our skills are our essence.

We all enter Cyberspace for the first time knowing nothing. Being nothing.

If this fact is not accepted, and a new member of Cyberspace allows himself to believe that his status in the world of the flesh matters here, then he will remain lame here until he realizes his error.

If, however, he accepts that he knows and is nothing, and that the Elders have much to teach, and shows great respect to the Elders, and a great interest and capacity to learn, then he has begun the journey.

Learning takes time. To become a hacker takes an insatiable curiosity. A desire to learn more, not because of competition, or any such base reason, but simply because the knowledge can be attained, and you want it.

This page has never, by my doing, been touched by any microsoft application or any "HTML editor". It has been created and maintained entirely by hand under UNIX.

This page created on 8/17/97