Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or…

It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If…

— Kevin Mitnick

What has happened is that we have seen a shift in the past twenty years in the very concept of hacking. So hacking twenty…

— Misha Glenny

Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.

— Walter O'Brien

“I can’t understand why there are so many creeps hacking the internet, but they are there for obvious reasons. With our Country so vulnerable…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

In the hacking world, security is more of a response than a proactive measure. They wait for hackers to attack and then they patch,…

— Michael Demon Calce

Hacking is very interesting. Once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, you're not going to catch them.

— Donald Trump

With hacking getting more and more sophisticated, the hacking community has gone from the hobbyist in the basement to huge sophisticated companies that are…

— Tim Cook

We live in a world where all wars will begin as cyber wars... It's the combination of hacking and massive, well-coordinated disinformation campaigns.

— Jared Cohen

Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.

— Charlie Brooker

A lot of the people who are hacking on behalf of governments are doing so on a contract basis. And they also do other…

— Alex Stamos

The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total. Always yield…

— Steven Levy

What was once a comparatively minor threat - people hacking for fun or for bragging rights - has turned into full-blown economic espionage and…

— Christopher A. Wray

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.

— Anonymous

There is the possibility to be suddenly arrested for hacking.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

“If you are a good hacker everybody knows you, But if you are a great hacker nobody knows you.”

— Rishabh Surya