Hacker Quotes - page 2

What has happened is that we have seen a shift in the past twenty years in the very concept of hacking. So hacking twenty years ago was a neutral, positive concept. Somebody who was a hacker was someone with advanced computer skills, which could expose vulnerabilities and could explain why systems worked well or worked badly and they were generally regarded as an asset. Over the past twenty years, a combination of media and law enforcement has changed the perception of the concept so that it has almost always, if not invariably, a pejorative sense attached. (Misha Glenny)
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. View quote
Samantha Shannon
I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
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. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
The thinking in the show, the hacker thinking of how do you approach every problem, I think they're hacking life more than they're hacking systems. View quote
Walter O'Brien
I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker. View quote
Thomas Watson, Jr.
I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up! View quote
Catherine Jinks
I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal. (Mikko Hypponen)
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. View quote
Roberta Smith
I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person. View quote
Richard D. James
God is a hacker, not an engineer. View quote
Francis Crick
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. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
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. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future. View quote
Heather Brooke
The difference between a hacker and consumer is a consumer says, "I wish it would work this way." A hacker says, "I've got a screwdriver and a few minutes." View quote
Rael Dornfest
...acting on Hacker's wishes, the editor of his collected works excluded the author's polemical Christian writings from the compilation. ... Many such polemical writings also appeared in fringe religious pamphlets and propaganda literature which are unknown to most scholars.... Hacker's suppression of this material compromised his integrity as an objective scholar, as it misled readers into thinking his writings on Hinduism were objective evaluations when in fact they were, in Andrew Nicholson's words, the work of a 'Christian polemicist'. In his posthumously published wrigings, Hacker is as explicit in his support for Christianity as he is in his attack on contemporary Hinduism. View quote
Rajiv Malhotra
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness - not necessarily with computers. (Richard Stallman)
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 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean "security breaker.”. View quote
Richard Stallman