Bulletin board Quote by Harper Reed

“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

“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 has happened is that we have seen a shift in the past twenty years in the very concept of hacking. So hacking twenty…

— Misha Glenny

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

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

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

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

— Paul Graham

In the '80s, society created a caricature of what a hacker or a programmer looked like: a guy wearing a hoodie, drinking energy drinks,…

— Reshma Saujani

People in tech love to see their work as embodying the 'hacker ethos': a desire to break systems down in order to change them.…

— Jenna Wortham

“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

“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

“Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession from the Electronic Frontier—a”

— Daniel Domscheit-Berg