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

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

— Seth Gordon

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

— Kevin Mitnick

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

— Michael Demon Calce

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

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

— Alexandra Elbakyan

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

— Bob Barr

“My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. - Harry…

— Harry Hariom Choudhary

The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just…

— Robin Williams

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

— Ricky Gervais

There is no need to distract the attention of the community from the essence of the subject substituting it with secondary questions…

— Vladimir Putin

I think it's a little premature to talk about response until we know exactly what happened, but we should know what happened.…

— Rand Paul

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

— Michael Demon Calce

“Hackers are unruly. That is the essence of hacking. And it is also the essence of Americanness. It is no accident that…

— Paul Graham

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

— Edward Snowden

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

— Kevin Mitnick

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

— Ethan Zuckerman

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

— Vladimir Putin

It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of…

— David E. Sanger

What we're going to get as this next generation grows up is more hacking skills and this is spreading geographically also -…

— Misha Glenny

This will include the various methods of internal monitoring, attack and penetration, investigation of suspected hackers or rogue employees - and you…

— Donald Trump

If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones…

— Aaron Sorkin

Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.

— Erik Naggum

“Because to hackers, passwords were even more odious than locked doors.”

— Steven Levy

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

— Bruce Sterling

Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list.

— David Letterman

Virality is not an accident. It is engineered. And that's why growth hackers beat traditional marketers.

— Ryan Holiday

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

— Tim Berners-Lee

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

— Ken Thompson

I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.

— Kevin Mitnick

A lot of hackers set up scam sites. They can impersonate a site like PayPal, for instance.

— Michael Demon Calce

I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before.…

— Kevin Mitnick

Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should…

— Anya Kamenetz

Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house…

— John Waters

The one thing that I know from the personal experiences that I've had with hackers and from people in tech who are…

— Sam Esmail

You have a very large population of hackers in Eastern Europe in general and Russia especially. A lot of them consider themselves…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better,…

— Mark Zuckerberg

The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed - but the spirit was still there among…

— Jonathan Zittrain