Quotes About Hacking

#1. The hacking trend has definitely turned criminal because of e-commerce.

Kevin Mitnick

#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. I don't even have any good skills. You know like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!

Jon Heder

#4. Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

Kevin Mitnick

#5. It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.

Evan Glodell

#6. I went to prison for my hacking. Now people hire me to do the same things I went to prison for, but in a legal and beneficial way.

Kevin D. Mitnick

#7. One should not chug an entire glass of wine at an elegant dinner party. I start hacking and coughing, having practically water-boarded myself out of sheer humiliation.

Lisa Daily

#8. People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

Richard Stallman

#9. I'm obsessed with my PlayStation. I'll come home and plug away at 'Fallout' for a couple of hours. Or, if I'm feeling the hacking and slashing, I'll play a little 'God of War.'

Tracy Spiridakos

#10. Whereas marketing was once brand-based, with growth hacking it becomes metric and ROI driven.

Ryan Holiday

#11. 'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.'

Kenneth Branagh

#12. 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

#13. I have told people that writing this book has been like brushing away dirt from a fossil. What a load of shit. It has been like hacking away at a freezer with a screwdriver.

Amy Poehler

#14. I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.

Kevin Mitnick

#15. I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone - in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.

John McAfee

#16. My hacking involved pretty much exploring computer systems and obtaining access to the source code of telecommunication systems and computer operating systems, because my goal was to learn all I can about security vulnerabilities within these systems.

Kevin Mitnick

#17. You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.

Tom A. Watson

#18. A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood by their own conscience, slashing their bellies open and feeding their guts to dogs.

Hilary Mantel

#19. It's actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you're dealing drugs. If you get caught you're going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it's much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none.

Kevin Mitnick

#20. Really, what the government is asking Apple to do is to make every individual who uses an iPhone susceptible to hacking by bad people, foreign governments, and anyone who wants.

John McAfee

#21. We're just hacking away at things and not thinking a whole lot about what the hacking's going to look like when we're done hacking.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. Hacking is exploiting security controls either in a technical, physical or a human-based element.

Kevin Mitnick

#23. It was like hacking through a thicket of raw tension whenever we were near each other.

Jessica Shirvington

#24. The smartest hackers understand that their skill at hacking technology may be less important than their skill at hacking the digital marketplace.

Douglas Rushkoff

#25. director of growth at StumbleUpon, put it best: growth hacking is more of a mindset than a tool kit.

Ryan Holiday

#26. Now I'm one point, yellow, green does it matter one from all, I'm like all, but If I do something like to go to jail for hacking, I will be part of the red once, and again and again, but question is how to be different?? How to be out of these groups??

Deyth Banger

#27. I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.

Ali MacGraw

#28. Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking his neighbor into pieces with a machete. That is a sick aberration. No, the true state of human affairs is life as it ought to be lived.

Paul Rusesabagina

#29. An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides marginal people barely qualified for precision programming.

Harlan Mills

#30. All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.

Tommy McCarthy

#31. Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#32. A pathfinder's job is hard enough - blazing trails where there are none, guided by nothing but hearsay and gut. While you're hacking your way through bracken, worrying about lurking beasts, all you can do is hope you had chosen the right direction.

Justina Chen

#33. If Anonymous and Lulzsec are the id of hacking, then physical hackerspaces are the heart of the higher-minded hacking ideals: freedom of information, meritocracy of ideas, a joy of learning and anti-authoritarianism.

Heather Brooke

#34. Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

Steve Coogan

#35. Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

Eoin Colfer

#36. You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

Edwin Land

#37. Phone phreaking is a type of hacking that allows you to explore the telephone network by exploiting the phone systems and phone company employees.

Kevin Mitnick

#38. Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

Kevin Mitnick

#39. China not only does not support hacking but also opposes it.

Li Keqiang

#40. There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

Edward Snowden

#41. I'm not going to be able to sleep a wink tonight.
I hate shelters.
People coughing and snoring and hacking up who-knows-what.
It's a nightmare.
But I do have clean teeth.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#42. You ... don't have the spine! he hissed with morbid, sadistic amusement.
Unfortunately for him, it was mercy that I lacked, not a spine. I raised my swords high overhead. He stopped laughing when I had finished hacking off his head.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#43. German reminded her of an old man hacking up phlegm.

Sara Shepard

#44. Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

Edward Abbey

#45. Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword.

Ilona Andrews

#46. I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

Michael Moore

#47. Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

Henry Rollins

#48. For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root - Thoreau

Stephen Covey

#49. What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

Neal Stephenson

#50. It's less about technology for me, and more about religion. [on hacking]

Adrian Lamo

#51. A layer of fine powder coats his skin.
"My lungs are turning to concrete," Rob wheezes, hacking and spitting.
"So are my eyes. How do I always get roped into these things?" Avery coughs and pats Rob's back in sympathy. A poof of dust billows from the contact.

Laura Kreitzer

#52. My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

Kevin Mitnick

#53. Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.

Kevin Mitnick

#54. Growth hacking really is a mindset rather than a tool kit.

Ryan Holiday

#55. A primary concern among Mac users, and a benefit to the hacking community, is the Mac owner mind-set that Macs aren't susceptible to viruses or attack. It is an interesting stance considering that the thing they are claiming to be naturally impervious from attack is, well, a computer!

Sean-Philip Oriyano

#56. I was hooked in before hacking was even illegal.

Kevin Mitnick

#57. Perplexity isn't as noble as conviction, but perhaps more good is done in the name of muddling through uncertainty than is done hacking away with the righteous sword of self-confidence.

Gregory Maguire

#58. Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?

Ramez Naam

#59. In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles. Sometimes you get excited about a new project and you want to work sixteen hours a day on it. Other times nothing seems interesting.

Paul Graham

#60. Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

Mason Cooley

#61. People are running huge enterprises off of hacking and stealing data.

Tim Cook

#62. In the hacking world, security is more of a response than a proactive measure. They wait for hackers to attack and then they patch, based on the attacks.

Michael Demon Calce

#63. It's clear why hacking communities are [growing]. Because it's like, there's a lot more gold there. There's a lot more to steal than ever before.

Tim Cook

#64. Your company is probably going to get hacked. The velocity and complexity of hacking attempts has skyrocketed, with companies routinely facing millions of knocks on the vault door.

Nina Easton

#65. 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

#66. That's what we're focusing on at Not Impossible Labs, looking at problems or needs that can be solved through hacking, modding, programming, whatever, so it helps one person first but has the potential to help many others.

Mick Ebeling

#67. With hacking getting more and more sophisticated, the hacking community has gone from the hobbyist in the basement to huge sophisticated companies that are essentially doing this, or groups of people or foreign agents inside and outside the United States.

Tim Cook

#68. It is as if we were to start hacking a path through the Amazon forest. By the time we have proceeded a hundred yards, the undergrowth takes over again.

Edward Luce

#69. 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

#70. A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

Steve Wozniak

#71. Robin Wasserman is the author of several books, including 'Hacking Harvard,' 'Chasing Yesterday,' 'Seven Deadly Sins,' and her latest, 'Skinned.'

John Joseph Adams

#72. 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

#73. You can do reverse engineering, but you can't do reverse hacking.

Francis Crick

#74. Pigpen crosses his arms over his chest, clearly pissed that I'm not following his set of rules for hacking. "You should have come to me when you hit that snag.

Katie McGarry

#75. My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

Kevin Mitnick

#76. As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

Kevin Mitnick

#77. Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

Richard Stallman

#78. Technology businesses in general are susceptible to hacking. That's why you have to work really, really, really hard with law enforcement, with security experts, internal and external groups, to make sure you're paying attention and addressing security concerns.

Evan Spiegel

#79. Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

J. F. C. Fuller

#80. Hacking in its pure form stretched back centuries. It wasn't restricted to a single medium. It was more than a methodology. It was an ethos.

Robin Wasserman

#81. Because there are little to no consequences for conducting cyberattacks, criminals and nation-states are becoming bolder in their threats and behavior. Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are increasingly hacking into U.S. companies and government networks for espionage purposes or financial gain.

Michael McCaul

#82. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Henry David Thoreau

#83. Don't look," said Goldstein, peering over the Charles's shoulder. "We don't know anything about illegal hacking." He whistled cheerily. "Travis Heuter owns half the world.

Patricia Briggs

#84. He thought about hacking in and recoding the program so that when the axe came down you got the

Margaret Atwood

#85. We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security.

Denis O'Hare

#86. My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.

Kevin Mitnick

#87. You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.

Jon Favreau

#88. Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand.

Douglas Rushkoff

#89. Yeah, it's terrible really. Little fucking minions in there hacking away with their teeny individual pick axes, tearing away the lining of my uterus piece by piece, basking in glory every time I let out a little cry of pain.

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#90. I don't think you're supposed to be able to get at that information," said Leslie.
"Don't look," said Goldstein, peering over Charles's shoulder. "We don't know anything about illegal hacking." He whistled cheerily.

Patricia Briggs

#91. Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.

Markus Zusak

#92. Back in my era, hacking was all about messing with other hackers. It was a hacker war.

Michael Demon Calce

#93. Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.

Charles Bukowski

#94. With growth hacking, we begin by testing until we can be confident we have a product worth marketing. Only then do we chase the big bang that kick-starts our growth engine.

Ryan Holiday

#95. I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.

Jennifer Wyatt

#96. When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.

Michael Demon Calce

#97. Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.

Dorothy Denning

#98. I don't know of any case that involves computer hacking where there were multiple defendants charged where there wasn't an informant on the case.

Kevin Mitnick

#99. I am not a wishing well with legs.
(Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.)

Adrian Lamo

#100. I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.

Kevin Mitnick