Hack Quotes

#1. The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who'd been aiming at art deco and hit Tracy Emin instead.

Ben Aaronovitch

#2. The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.

Matt Mullenweg

#3. But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.

John Scalzi

#4. So, could you hack your microbiome to make yourself healthier, happier, and smarter too?

Anonymous

#5. In this millennium that we live in, the 'Hack-a-Shaq'has proven not to work. It might work a couple games every now and then, but when it comes to the playoffs or a championship series, it doesn't work - not at all.

Shaquille O'Neal

#6. A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.

Rick Perlstein

#7. I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.

Greg Proops

#8. You shouldn't send an email from a computer that's associated with you if you don't want it to be tracked back to you. You don't want to hack the power plant from your house if you don't want them to follow the trail back and see your IP address.

Edward Snowden

#9. Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.

Shaquille O'Neal

#10. When she was in the middle of a hack, it tended to fill up her brain until her vision hummed with coding and mathematics, skipping ahead to each necessary task faster than she could complete them. It tended to leave her in a state of drained euphoria.

Marissa Meyer

#11. Most people follow the path wherever it leads them. Others hack their own way through the brush and always seem to end up on higher ground.

P.B. Ryan

#12. It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

#13. I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.

Harry Chapin

#14. You're not a lumberjack trying to hack down a tree. You're a dancer, and the sword is an extension of your arm. Move with the blade and keep your eyes on your enemy's upper body, not their weapon.

Julie Kagawa

#15. How hard do you think it'd be to hack into the database of a major research university?"
Mac hesitated. "Since you're asking me on a cell phone, in front of God and the NSA- impossible.

Rob Thomas

#16. Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

Dennis Flanagan

#17. Adeline had come to Christianity the same way she had come to sex and smoking:through peer pressure.Thinking about her six kids and her smoker's hack, she wondered if perhaps peer pressure didn't always lead to the best habits.

Christopher Moore

#18. How do you deny a living, breathing feeling? How do you hack it and kill it and bury it so that it never surfaces again?

Leylah Attar

#19. The biggest hack a motivation hacker can perform is to build her confidence to the size of a volcano. An oversized eruption of Expectancy can incinerate all obstacles in the path to any goal when you combine it with good planning. Value

Nick Winter

#20. In the absence of big budgets, start-ups learned how to hack the system to build their companies.

Micah Baldwin

#21. I couldn't hack it in Hollywood, my writing's wasn't bad enough.

Russ Lippitt

#22. Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

Charlie Pierce

#23. Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work.

Sam Altman

#24. Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre/niche writers, but every single one of us.

Russell T. Davies

#25. When I first started buying shoes with my own money, I would always get them from eBay. I used to hack my mum's account, and suddenly these white cowboy leather boots would arrive.

Suki Waterhouse

#26. It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things ...

Aimee Bender

#27. And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.

Julia Ormond

#28. If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

Aaron Allston

#29. The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.

Steven Pressfield

#30. Learn more about Marcus Phillips, CTO and Head of Instruction at Hack Reactor Learn more about Hack Reactor. Learn more about the Twitter Chat on this topic on 2/12/2014.

Anonymous

#31. Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.

Alice Cooper

#32. It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Bruce Lee

#33. Hack, hack, hack. I wouldn't pay twenty-five cents to spit on a Georgia O'Keeffe painting. And I think she's a horrible person, too. I know her ... So arrogant, so sure of herself. I'm sure she's carrying a dildo in her purse.

Truman Capote

#34. A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

John McAfee

#35. Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.

William Finnegan

#36. I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

Kevin Mitnick

#37. Well, we all have our sharks, I'm sure, and there's only one way to get them off before they hack and nibble you to death - stop feeding them; they will find other bait; you fattened them the last dozen times around - now set them out to sea.

Charles Bukowski

#38. I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.

Stan Lee

#39. No doubts our generation is producing another form of grub street literature.. Welcome to the world of hack writers..

Himmilicious

#40. Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

L. Ron Hubbard

#41. Who was this person who could hack a man to pieces one day and save a kitten the next?

Beth Flynn

#42. Live close to nature and you'll never feel lonely. Don't drive those sparrows out of your veranda; they won't hack into your computer.

Ruskin Bond

#43. Hack Days were initially started for Yahoo employees.

David Filo

#44. The chances to get involved in the service after seeing a delicious growth hack are higher than after bombing with requirements to confirm the e-mail. Growth

Aladdin Happy

#45. There are a lot of great inventors and improvers in the world. But those who hack world-class success tend to be the ones who can focus relentlessly on a tiny number of things. In other words, to soar, we need to simplify.

Shane Snow

#46. What do you mean, what's the deal with my hair?" - Swift
...
"Did you get bored one day and hack half of it off? You look like you've had a close call with a weed whacker." - Cas

Emily Skrutskie

#47. The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

Paul Westerberg

#48. One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.

John McAfee

#49. Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is

Rob Pike

#50. It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.

Adrienne Rich

#51. I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. 'Bullets Over Broadway' is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years.

Douglas Wood

#52. The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

Vance Packard

#53. I mean that you and I know that in this universe, God is a hack," he said. "He's a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can't plot His way out of a box. How do you have faith when you know that?

John Scalzi

#54. Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.

Tom Christiansen

#55. Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.

Keith Barry

#56. The Hack is the action you take to expose, jam, complicate, disrupt, or otherwise point out the crack to the organization.

Jason Little

#57. (The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can't stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.

Shaquille O'Neal

#58. Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

Jonah Goldberg

#59. You can't kill the past by denying the past. You can kill it only by making it obsolete. And even in that, you have to find honor in the past. You can't hack off pieces of yourself, and expect them to grow again.

Jeff Buckley

#60. No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

Sam Altman

#61. I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer than me is brilliant. So of course that makes me a horrible critic when it comes to books, because I can't distance my own experience from what I'm doing.

Chuck Klosterman

#62. It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.

Pauline Kael

#63. I think nobody can get me out. I've got a pretty good idea of what I want to hit. If I get my pitch, I'm going to get a hack in. And if I don't get you this time, I'll get you next time. I'm not saying I'm better than anybody, but I am saying that nobody is better than me.

Carlos Delgado

#64. The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.

Sam Altman

#65. I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

Mark Rydell

#66. People who can't hack it as Irwins because they're too violent go into the air travel industry.

Mira Grant

#67. Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

Gautama Buddha

#68. Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that.

Peter Jackson

#69. I think the game has gotten better. (The two-ref system) keeps players from taking cheap shots behind the play. I never thought I'd like it, considering the way I like to hack.

Brian Skrudland

#70. In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#71. I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

Jason Ritter

#72. We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

Edward Snowden

#73. I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

Christopher Buckley

#74. Dear FB Friends,
Fuck Facebook!!!!! - It has proven to be worthless as a book-selling device, and is nothing but a repository for perverts, reparation-seekers, old buddies looking for handouts, syphillitic ex-girlfriends looking for extra-curricular schlong and hack writers begging for blurbs.

James Ellroy

#75. So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them.

Cory Doctorow

#76. We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

Murray Kempton

#77. The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

John McGraw

#78. Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized.

Anil Dash

#79. When I became a standup comic, my hero, one of them, was Richard Pryor, and you know, I think that comedians, like, comedians talk about hacks, and what a hack is, is someone who does stuff that's not original.

Artie Lange

#80. You're not being paid by how hard you work, but by what you accomplish. If you can't hack it, pack it. Our challenge today is to look forward, to write our own history.

William A. Connelly

#81. By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.

Keith Barry

#82. Sometimes you've got to get a machete and hack your way through the kudzu to make your own path in life.

Carolyn Brown

#83. It happened like that in fairytales, you see, oh yes, those heroic men would hack down a forest just to get to you. Where were all the heroes nowadays? She

Caroline Roberts

#84. I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.

Molly Crabapple

#85. the Hacker Ethic, which instructs you to keep working until your hack tops previous efforts.

Steven Levy

#86. What is he, twelve?"
"Fourteen."
"Well, no wonder, then. Hormones are raging! All you want to do when you're fourteen is snatch up a broadsword and hack something to pieces, then find a big rock and fuck it to death.

Sarah Black

#87. Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.

H.P. Lovecraft

#88. You can't hack your destiny, brute force ... you need a back door, a side channel into Life.

Clyde DeSouza

#89. I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

Salman Rushdie

#90. ...a clerk, a machine, a riding-school hack, eating and drinking and sleeping at fixed hours. I should be like everyone else. And that's what they call living, that life at the grindstone, doing the same thing over and over again.... I am hungry and nothing is offered to appease my appetite.

Honore De Balzac

#91. And Dick Gansey II had let his son know that if he couldn't hack it in a private school, Gansey was cut out of the will. He'd said it nicely, though, over a plate of fettuccine.

Maggie Stiefvater

#92. I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.

John F. Kerry

#93. Somebody needs a bath, a steak, and a hack saw, that you very fucking much.

Lime Craven

#94. When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax,

Robert Moses

#95. I know a little about Hack (Wilson) because his picture is next to my locker. I am lucky to be there at the right time. People will now remember two guys, Hack Wilson and myself, and the season is not over yet.

Sammy Sosa

#96. I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.

Danica McKellar

#97. Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Vincent Canby

#98. This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.

Dan Brown

#99. Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

Dennis Lehane

#100. So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.

James Earl Jones