Hackers Quotes · Page 2

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

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

— Adrian Lamo

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

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

“I admire these phone hackers. I think they have a lot of patience. I can't even be bothered to check my OWN…

— Andrew Lawrence

I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!

— Catherine Jinks

Very smart people are often tricked by hackers, by phishing. I don't exclude myself from that. It's about being smarter than a…

— Harper Reed

“Hackers are nerdy, pasty, tubby, little geeks with triple thick glasses and this is probably a demented otaku with smelly feet. So…

— Keiko Nobumoto

Humans make mistakes. Programmers are bound to make mistakes. Hackers, you can bet your life, are going to be there to exploit…

— Michael Demon Calce

“Dirck took a deep breath, refusing to believe what he'd seen as he exited to the core system, so rattled he almost…

— Marcha A. Fox

[Hackers] did not stop. They - they came after us absolutely every day until the end of the election. They tried to…

— Donna Brazile

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

— Dmitri Alperovitch

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

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

Our civilization is facing a radical, imminent mass change. The alternative to the hierarchical power structure is based on mutual aid and…

— Jeremy Hammond

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and…

— Angelina Jolie

No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of…

— Tom O'Connor

I was really fascinated by some of the things happening with Anonymous, the hackers group. I don't necessarily agree with everything they've…

— Michelle Gagnon

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Russian hackers interfered in our elections, and we like penalized a few of them. Whatever they're doing underground, we don't know. No,…

— David Brooks

Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling,…

— Jane McGonigal

Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much…

— Josh Klinghoffer

Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.

— John Badham

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

— Mitch Kapor

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

— Jamie Zawinski

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

— Eric S. Raymond

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

— Kevin Mitnick

We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true.

— Reince Priebus

“Why do they believe that?” “Because we are hackers,” Csongor said, “and they have seen movies.”

— Neal Stephenson

“If you can’t find ten Lisp hackers, then your company is probably based in the wrong city for developing software”

— Paul Graham

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

— Ryan Holiday

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

— Michael Demon Calce

The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees.

— Stephen Colbert

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

— Kevin Mitnick

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

— Ken Thompson

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

— Eric S. Raymond

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

— Tim Berners-Lee