Definitely one of his more pretentious essays. I'll call myself whatever I want. Who made him 'hacker' gatekeeper?

I’ll call you a hacker whenever I decide to. Who made you the arbiter of whether you should be called a hacker?

Then who was the first hacker?

Doesn't matter. If there is no hacker you can call yourself a hacker without any other hacker complaining :D

It's hackers all the way down.

I don't know who was the (car 'hacker) but this one was the last in the recursive tail call:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1DFwtR755I

Kevin Flynn

Davinci

I call myself a hacker, and since I'm a hacker it's the truth when I call myself a hacker.

You're not an artist until an artist calls you an artist.