An absolutely wonderful book, if you haven't read it then get it now!

Good book, it should be in everyone's library but it won't help you learn about hacking.

I would argue that it does. The talks about holism vs reductionism, the introduction to programming with in it, extending to writing programs that write themselves and other strange loops are all very relevant.

Perhaps most relevant of all is learning how such varied fields relate. It's all very well being a hacker, but working out how hacking is a general thing not specific to computers is quite edifying. Learning how the tenents of the hacker are seen in religion, philosophy and art as well as science is quite profound.

You can stretch this line of thought to any though provoking book.