Hackers Quotes

• Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

  Larry Wall

  Maps, Diverse, Hard

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• Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Heart, Intention, Should

  "They call me a criminal" by Kevin Mitnick, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2000.

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• Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Degrees, Causes, Action

  "They call me a criminal" by Kevin Mitnick, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2000.

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• It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

  Ken Thompson

  Criminals, Serious, Prosecution

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• The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Class, Machines, World

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.12, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Home, Talking, Years

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.13, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Rebel, Empires, Soulless

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.13, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Reality, Majority, May

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• See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Joy, Littles, Toys

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• While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Motivational, Skills, Violence

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• I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

  Angelina Jolie

  Strong Women, Gun, Play

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• Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

  Esther Dyson

  Rights, Government, Liberty

  "On the Frontier: An Interview with Esther Dyson". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.

  Vinton Cerf

  Running, Want, Making Money

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• A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Data, Profit, Activity

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• The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Hacking, Individual, Vandals

  "They call me a criminal", www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2000.

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• The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Sides, Mindset, Victim

  "An Hour with Kevin Mitnick, Part 2". Interview With Vince Barnes, www.esecurityplanet.com. April 7, 2004.

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• A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Creative, Doe, Wonderful

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• Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

  Fred Durst

  Needs, Problem, Solve

  "Fred Durst says sex video was stolen from his computer", www.mtv.com. February 25, 2005.

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• Never send a boy to do a woman's job.

  Angelina Jolie

  Jobs, Boys

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• There are more hackers breeding every day, and more brilliant minds are turning into hackers. Security has advanced, but so have hackers.

  Michael Demon Calce

  Mind, Brilliant, Breeding

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

  Waiting, World, Hacking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Hackers are nerdy, pasty, tubby, little geeks with triple thick glasses and this is probably a demented otaku with smelly feet. So catching him will be a breeze!

  Keiko Nobumoto

  Glasses, Feet, Littles

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• "Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

  Bruce Sterling

  Design, Inquiry, Stories

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• Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Funny, Crazy, Missing

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• If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Eye, Doors, Blood

  "The Sony Hack and the Yellow Pres" by Aaron Sorkin, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2014.

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