Hacker Quotes

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)
The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
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. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
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. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
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. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
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. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
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. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
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. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth. (Charles C. Mann)
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. View quote
Josh Klinghoffer
I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers. View quote
Justin Long
I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare. View quote
Seth Gordon
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. View quote
Sarah Lacy
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. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
You should never send an expert to a movie about his specialty. Boxers hate boxing movies. Space buffs said 'Apollo 13' showed the wrong side of the moon. The British believe Mel Gibson's scholarship was faulty in 'Braveheart' merely because some of the key characters hadn't been born at the time of the story. 'Hackers' is, I have no doubt, deeply dubious in the computer science department. While it is no doubt true that in real life no hacker could do what the characters in this movie do, it is no doubt equally true that what hackers can do would not make a very entertaining movie. View quote
Roger Ebert
I ain't no computer hacker! View quote
Mr. T
The Internet culture is characterized by four layer-structure: • The Techno-Meritocratic Culture • The Hacker Culture • The Virtual Communitarian Culture • The Entrepreneurial Culture. View quote
Manuel Castells
Windows 95 and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic. View quote
Neal Stephenson
The use of "hacker” to mean "security breaker” is a confusion on the part of the mass media. We hackers refuse to recognize that meaning, and continue using the word to mean someone who loves to program, someone who enjoys playful cleverness, or the combination of the two. (Richard Stallman)
Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map!Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations...Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!?Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'...Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL. View quote
Larry Wall
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. View quote
Jamie Zawinski
If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works. View quote
Jamie Zawinski
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. View quote
Jamie Zawinski