Top 100 Hacker Quotes
#1. Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.
Andrew Hacker
#2. I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
Marilyn Hacker
#4. I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.
Marilyn Hacker
#5. 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
#6. I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, on who is half hacker, half bard.
Janet H. Murray
#7. No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind or rain or sleet or sun (or all of them at once), hacking at a white pellet that seems to have a mind of its own and a lousy sense of direction.
Tom O'Connor
#8. The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
Marilyn Hacker
#9. There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.
Marilyn Hacker
#11. If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
Jamie Zawinski
#12. The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.
Eric S. Raymond
#13. A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.
Kevin Mitnick
#14. I'm getting a daily email from Microsoft which I have been ignoring that states a hacker is trying to access my account. As far as the Microsoft account goes, the hacker can have it ... along with all of the nasty Windows 10 upgrade problems!
Steven Magee
#15. Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
Marilyn Hacker
#16. I'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.
Marilyn Hacker
#17. If one day I should hear the hacker's slow, booted step on the stair, perhaps I'll suggest a cup of tea and try to get the story of his life.
Alix Kates Shulman
#18. The abilities distinctive of human beings are abilities of intellect and will. The relevant abilities of intellect are thought, imagination (the cogitative and creative imagination rather than the image-generating faculty), personal (experiential) and factual memory, reasoning and selfconsciousness.
P.M.S. Hacker
#19. I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
Marilyn Hacker
#20. I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.
Marilyn Hacker
#21. As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
Marilyn Hacker
#23. Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur - I would say serious amateur - painter.
Roberta Smith
#24. If the hacker is a creator, we have to take inspiration into account.
Paul Graham
#25. Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.
Jacob Hacker
#26. There is always an element of play in form, however 'serious' the expression.
Marilyn Hacker
#27. In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.
Eric S. Raymond
#28. I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.
Mikko Hypponen
#29. I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
Marilyn Hacker
#30. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
#31. Practice is a private activity, and having someone witness it an odd sort of embarrassment.
Christopher Hacker
#32. I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.
Justin Long
#33. We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
Marilyn Hacker
#34. The motivation hacker learns to steer his life towards higher Value and to have fun demolishing boring necessities in his way. Impulsiveness
Nick Winter
#35. I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
Dan Kaminsky
#36. Be very careful. We suggest getting a book on HTML to avoid becoming a real legend in the hacker world. Putting up a web page before you know how to put up a web page is generally a very bad idea. The .gov sites are an exception.
Emmanuel Goldstein
#37. I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.
Kevin Mitnick
#38. The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.
Mark Zuckerberg
#39. I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.
Marilyn Hacker
#40. If Metias joined the Patriots, he'd be a Hacker too. If he were alive.
Marie Lu
#41. Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.
Jonathan Lynn
#42. Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.
John Waters
#43. I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.
Marilyn Hacker
#44. Hacks and attacks happen. Safety Netiquette helps. Periodic account reconciliation is required. Check.
David Chiles
#45. I hate to say it, and Apple never likes it, but I love anything that's hacker oriented. I don't like passing it onto others, or getting things for free. I don't like stealing music one bit, at all ...
Steve Wozniak
#46. Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.
John Badham
#47. The difference can be summed up in one word: authorization. I don't need authorization to get in. It's the word that instantly transforms me from the World's Most Wanted Hacker to one of the Most Wanted Security Experts in the world. Just like magic.
Kevin D. Mitnick
#48. I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.
Kim Dotcom
#49. Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.
Marilyn Hacker
#50. Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?
Anya Kamenetz
#51. Why should I apologize for being a HACKER? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?
Harsh Mohan
#52. Da5id Meier, supreme hacker overlord, founding father of the Metaverse protocol, creator and proprietor of the world-famous Black Sun, has just suffered a system crash. He's been thrown out of his own bar by his own daemons.
Neal Stephenson
#53. The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.
Kevin Mitnick
#54. When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.
Kevin Mitnick
#55. Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.
Marilyn Hacker
#56. I am by now completely convinced that my downfall in life is going to be my inability to achieve computer nirvana like a true hacker or hackette. I think this lacking is the most unmodern facet of my personality - the career equivalent of having six fingers, or a vestigial tail.
Douglas Coupland
#57. Every hacker is to some extent a rebel who lives by different standards and enjoys beating the system.
Kevin D. Mitnick
#58. Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
Marilyn Hacker
#59. A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.
Tim Berners-Lee
#60. I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#61. I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
Marilyn Hacker
#62. the Hacker Ethic, which instructs you to keep working until your hack tops previous efforts.
Steven Levy
#63. Mrs Hacker was the only woman present. They'd made her a sort of honorary man for the evening.
Jonathan Lynn
#64. She builds people up because she knows what it is like to be torn down.
Shannon L. Alder
#65. Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world.
Sarah Lacy
#66. Most hackers are young because young people tend to be adaptable. As long as you remain adaptable, you can always be a good hacker.
Emmanuel Goldstein
#67. The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.
Marilyn Hacker
#68. There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.
Marilyn Hacker
#69. Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.
Marilyn Hacker
#70. A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.
Eric S. Raymond
#71. Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific!
Tad Williams
#72. I have a hacker, a half-dead dog, and a child. It's hardly an arsenal.
V.E Schwab
#73. The garage is the space for the hacker, the tinkerer, the maker. The garage is not defined by a single field or industry; instead, it is defined by the eclectic interests of its inhabitants. It is a space where intellectual networks converge.
Steven Johnson
#74. The explosion of companies deploying wireless networks insecurely is creating vulnerabilities, as they think it's limited to the office - then they have Johnny Hacker in the parking lot with an 802.11 antenna using the network to send threatening emails to the president!
Kevin Mitnick
#75. It always seemed to me that the hacker occupied the same niche as the American cowboy in your Wild West. Gunslingers at the edge of known civilization. Black hats, white hats. Some drawn into thievery, others taking the law into their own hands - justice both corporeal and social.
Chuck Wendig
#76. Took to typing as quickly and loudly as possible and yelling, "I'm in!" when accessing basic programs. Made me feel like a hacker.
Jeremy Robert Johnson
#77. I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.
Seth Gordon
#78. I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.
Kevin Mitnick
#79. I think all artists struggle to represent the geometry
of life in their own way, just like writers deal with
archetypes. There are only so many stories that you can
tell, but an infinite number of storytellers.
Henry Mosquera
#80. It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.
Kevin Mitnick
#81. When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer.
Seth Lloyd
#82. My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
Marilyn Hacker
#83. News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage.
Robert Reich
#84. Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
Marilyn Hacker
#85. Wait, Ed. Did you say she?" "You better believe it. Our hacker's a she!
David Lagercrantz
#87. Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
Charles Stross
#88. Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.
Eric S. Raymond
#89. Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.
Charles Platt
#90. The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
Marilyn Hacker
#91. Think like a fundamentalist, code like a hacker.
Erik Meijer
#92. Inside every alienated hacker who thinks he stands for the "good things that ultimately don't matter to most businesses" there is a tycoon struggling to get out.
Michael Lewis
#93. I suppose we all have our quirks." Her gaze travels over my outfit as she says "quirks." I'm in my usual hacker chic outfit I wear on jobs, lots of tight black everything, punk meets goth, short on class and full of sass. Because fuck you, that's why.
J.T. Geissinger
#94. I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
Samantha Shannon
#95. Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.
Andrew Hacker
#96. At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker.
Kevin Mitnick
#97. Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.
Lesley Stahl
#98. He knows that I have a photographic memory ... and that I'm a hacker.
Stieg Larsson
#100. A growth hacker doesn't see marketing as something one does but rather as something one builds into the product itself.
Ryan Holiday
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