Hackers Quotes · Page 2

“A vulnerability in an organization's IoT microcosm is a "taunt" to exploit by malicious hackers”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

— Jamie Zawinski

As the world becomes more digitalized, there are more entry points for hackers.

— Michael Demon Calce

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]

— Gerard Way

Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.

— Heather Brooke

Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them

— Dean Stockwell

The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.

— Kevin Mitnick

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

— Larry Wall

When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in…

— Seth Lloyd

Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself…

— Ricky Gervais

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with…

— Eric S. Raymond

It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another…

— Bob Barr

There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.

— Shia LaBeouf

Certainly we're going to do whatever that loaded word retaliate is, we're going to do everything we can in order to prevent…

— Reince Priebus

“The first hackers were people in software who like solving problems and believe in freedom and helping each other. They produced a…

— CJS Hayward

We fear hackers lifting our digital wallet, a public accounting of our private lives, and we wonder if the shoes that follow…

— Richard Cohen

There are a lot of hackers today, you know, and they perform their work in such a filigreed and delicate manner and…

— Vladimir Putin

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure…

— Ethan Zuckerman

When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions…

— Julia Stiles

We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep…

— Eric S. Raymond

When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other…

— Kevin Mitnick

The new iPhone has encryption that protects the contents of the phone. This means if someone steals your phone - if a…

— Edward Snowden

I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's…

— Steve Wozniak

My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers…

— Bre Pettis

Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific!

— Tad Williams

We put up the very best cyber security - what I call infrastructure to stop them, but [hackers] constantly [didn't stop].

— Donna Brazile

I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.

— Mikko Hypponen

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it…

— Jamie Zawinski

This is our world now The world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud.

— Loyd Blankenship

I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

— Jasper Fforde

“There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.”

— Paul Graham

“It's less about technology for me, and more about religion. [on hacking]”

— Adrian Lamo

I do know about stories where hackers that left Russia or Ukraine for Europe or the United States were unexpectedly arrested.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.

— Lesley Stahl

A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

— Kevin Mitnick

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

— Jonathan Lynn

Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.

— John McAfee

Back in my era, hacking was all about messing with other hackers. It was a hacker war.

— Michael Demon Calce

Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security

— Fred Durst

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

— Kevin Mitnick