Civilization Quote by Mitch Kapor

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

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

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic…

— Anonymous

There are more hackers breeding every day, and more brilliant minds are turning into hackers. Security has advanced, but so have hackers.

— Michael Demon Calce

To see a hacker actually hacking is not the most interesting thing visually, and it's pretty boring as an actor: a hacker taps on…

— Finn Wolfhard

“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

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

“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

What was once a comparatively minor threat - people hacking for fun or for bragging rights - has turned into full-blown economic espionage and…

— Christopher A. Wray

“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

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

— Bruce Sterling