Architecture Quote by Bruce Sterling

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

— Bruce Sterling

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

— Steve Wozniak

“What hackers do is figure out technology and experiment with it in ways many people never imagined. They also have a strong desire to…

— Emmanuel Goldstein

“Hackers, makers, programmers, engineers, nerds, techies — what we’ll call “geeks” for the rest of the book (deal with it) — we’re a creative…

— Jeff Potter

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

— Eric S. Raymond

“In this business, I find more value in working with hackers who abstract new realities from cast aside code and concepts than academics who…

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

“Hackers, he told one interviewer, were “just this group of computer scientists who were trying to quickly prototype and see what was possible. That’s…

— Franklin Foer

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

— Tim Berners-Lee

“central tenets of the Hacker Ethic: the free flow of information, particularly information that helped fellow hackers understand, explore, and build systems.”

— Steven Levy

Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and…

— Heather Brooke

“IN 1984, journalist Steven Levy published Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which chronicled the scruffy subculture that had not only created the personal…

— Chris Anderson

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

— Mitch Kapor