Uh, OK...

While I may lack any desire to set upon you with my collection of medieval weaponry, I must be one of the 'beautiful hack' people you're talking about. To my mind, "tremendous inner calm" is a good place for a hack to begin and almost certainly where it will leave you afterwards. (Well, either tremendous inner calm or "Oh my god... How did I ever manage to come up with something that elegant?" (Note that, in my world, clarity is a prerequisite for elegance. Unless you're working on an obfu.))

But am I happy to say, "Yes, I'm a hacker"? No. I'm not nearly that good. (Yet?)