Quote by Steven Levy

“Because to hackers, passwords were even more odious than locked doors.”

— Steven Levy

“in keeping with the Hacker Ethic, no artificial boundaries were maintained.”

— Steven Levy

“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Rebellious schoolboys are unwelcome in a technologically advanced, moralistic, exam-oriented society. We prefer a polished Bill Gates to an eccentric Einstein. Eccentrics do unpredictable…

— Ruskin Bond

“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

“Reed had once warned that brains were untrustworthy – that like any computer, they could be hacked.”

— K.C. Alexander

For digital natives, public schools are jails

— Bing Gordon

“hacking had become a government operation done by well-trained teams.”

— Donna Brazile

“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

“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

“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

“In a couple of weeks I'd be starting a new school, and I knew Dee would be surrounded by friends -friends that Daemon probably…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout