Communication Quote by Linus Torvalds

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

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, 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

People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'

— Dave Barry

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.

— John McAfee

“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

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

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

“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 often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.

— Heather Brooke

"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