Business Quote by 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

“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

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

— Steven Levy

“The first hackers were people in software who like solving problems and believe in freedom and helping each other. They produced a lot of…

— CJS Hayward

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

“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

"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the…

— Bruce Sterling

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

“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

The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total. Always yield…

— Steven Levy

“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

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

— Tim Berners-Lee