Computers Quote by CJS Hayward

“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

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

— Steven Levy

“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

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

— Michael Demon Calce

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…

— Richard Stallman

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big…

— Kevin Mitnick

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

“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

“But in the end, the hackers were misunderstood figures. They wanted nothing more than to belong, to subsume their brilliant selves in an even…

— Franklin Foer

“Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be - to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit…

— Orson Scott Card

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

— Eric S. Raymond