Creative Quote by 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

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like…

— Linus Torvalds

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

“Similarly, to be a hacker you have to get a basic thrill from solving problems, sharpening your skills, and exercising your intelligence. If you…

— Eric S. Raymond

Guys, I'm Not a Hacker. I Was Asked If I Wanted To Be An Admin And I Said Yes, So PleaseStop Saying I Am.…

— Anonymous

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

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

— Heather Brooke

I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.

— Mikko Hypponen

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, 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