Hacker Quotes

36 Hacker quotes by 20 unique authors

No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind… — Tom O'Connor
The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees. — Stephen Colbert
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker… — Eric S. Raymond
It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature — Eric S. Raymond
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing… — Mark Zuckerberg
Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific! — Tad Williams
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. — Jamie Zawinski
The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. — Eric S. Raymond
Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. — Eric S. Raymond
If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could… — Kevin Mitnick
I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers. — Justin Long
Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts. — Jonathan Lynn
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s… — Richard Stallman
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes… — Eric S. Raymond
Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't… — Sarah Lacy
God is a hacker, not an engineer — Francis Crick
I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person. — Aphex Twin
I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare. — Seth Gordon
A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere.… — Charles C. Mann
The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim. — Kevin Mitnick
I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies. — Kevin Mitnick
The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network. — Kevin Mitnick
I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference… — Kevin Mitnick
When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should… — Kevin Mitnick
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 I… — Kevin Mitnick

Who Wrote These Hacker Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 36 Hacker Quotes as follows: