Top 100 Hacker Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, on who is half hacker, half bard.
Janet H. Murray
#3. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.
Kevin Mitnick
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. If the hacker is a creator, we have to take inspiration into account.
Paul Graham
#12. 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
#13. I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.
Mikko Hypponen
#14. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
#15. I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.
Justin Long
#16. The motivation hacker learns to steer his life towards higher Value and to have fun demolishing boring necessities in his way. Impulsiveness
Nick Winter
#17. I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
Dan Kaminsky
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. If Metias joined the Patriots, he'd be a Hacker too. If he were alive.
Marie Lu
#22. Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.
Jonathan Lynn
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.
John Badham
#26. 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
#27. I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.
Kim Dotcom
#28. 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
#29. Why should I apologize for being a HACKER? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?
Harsh Mohan
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Every hacker is to some extent a rebel who lives by different standards and enjoys beating the system.
Kevin D. Mitnick
#35. A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.
Tim Berners-Lee
#36. I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#37. the Hacker Ethic, which instructs you to keep working until your hack tops previous efforts.
Steven Levy
#38. Mrs Hacker was the only woman present. They'd made her a sort of honorary man for the evening.
Jonathan Lynn
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific!
Tad Williams
#43. I have a hacker, a half-dead dog, and a child. It's hardly an arsenal.
V.E Schwab
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.
Seth Gordon
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Wait, Ed. Did you say she?" "You better believe it. Our hacker's a she!
David Lagercrantz
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Think like a fundamentalist, code like a hacker.
Erik Meijer
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker.
Kevin Mitnick
#61. Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.
Lesley Stahl
#62. He knows that I have a photographic memory ... and that I'm a hacker.
Stieg Larsson
#64. A growth hacker doesn't see marketing as something one does but rather as something one builds into the product itself.
Ryan Holiday
#67. Tsukiko Saionji: He doesn't look like a weed whacker.
Aoi "Flippy" Kyogoku: But I'm a computer hacker, and a safe cracker, and a butt smacker ... and I've got just the right equipment to trim your hedge.
Yuu Watase
#68. Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
John McAfee
#69. Central tenets of the Hacker Ethic: the free flow of information, particularly information that helped fellow hackers understand, explore, and build systems.
Steven Levy
#70. I'm a fucking killing machine, and you're a sweet little hacker who likes to flirt with danger. Baby, I am danger.
Rebecca Zanetti
#71. When a hacker gains access to any corporate data, the value of that data depends on which server, or sometimes a single person's computer, that the hacker gains access to.
John McAfee
#72. The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.
Heather Brooke
#73. Back in my era, hacking was all about messing with other hackers. It was a hacker war.
Michael Demon Calce
#74. She noted the lack of female hardware hackers, and was enraged at the male hacker obsession with technological play and power.
Steven Levy
#75. The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees.
Stephen Colbert
#76. I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!
Catherine Jinks
#77. I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.
Kevin Mitnick
#78. Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
Ken Levine
#79. 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 that.
Linus Torvalds
#80. Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms.
Kevin Mitnick
#81. It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.
Robert Scoble
#82. Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.
Josh Klinghoffer
#83. The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit.
Robin Williams
#84. If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could subscribe for 10 bucks a month. Everything is encrypted in an encryption tunnel, so a hacker cannot tamper with your connection.
Kevin Mitnick
#85. Empathy is probably the single most important difference between a good hacker and a great one.
Paul Graham
#86. Do you think the Chinese think twice about hiring a hacker with a mohawk or a tattooed face? No.
John McAfee
#87. I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.
Jamie Zawinski
#88. 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
#89. To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.
Tim Berners-Lee
#90. The end goal of every growth hacker is to build a self-perpetuating marketing machine that reaches millions by itself. - AARON GINN
Ryan Holiday
#91. The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.
Kevin Mitnick
#92. I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.
Kevin Mitnick
#93. I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.
Kevin Mitnick
#94. Right, right, I get it, you're a doctor, not a hacker.
Rachel Bach
#95. I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.
Kevin Mitnick
#96. If you are a good hacker everybody knows you, But if you are a great hacker nobody knows you.
Rishabh Surya
#97. F_k being a script kiddie if you can avoid it - be a hacker.
Kevin D. Mitnick
#98. The guardians of your company's cyber security should be encouraged to network within the industry to swap information on the latest hacker tricks and most effective defenses.
Nina Easton
#99. 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
#100. 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
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