Hacks Quotes - Page 2

• Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Space, Able, Enough

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• I've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed corporate hacks or the lowly stalkers who seek to libel me or make a buck off the fact that I'm a well-known person.

  Michael Moore

  Hours In The Day, Enemy, Bucks

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• I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Moving, Reading, Effort

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “The Luzhin Defense”, p.7, Penguin UK

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• I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.

  Patton Oswalt

  Mean, Comedian, Ponds

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• The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

  Vance Packard

  Powerful, Creativity, Men

  Vance Packard (1991). “The Hidden Persuaders”

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• I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

  Liz Phair

  Song, People, Giving

  "Liz Phair’s on the lookout for magic in the moment". Interview with John Wenzel, www.denverpost.com. January 12, 2011.

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• This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Men, Ideas

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• I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

  Helen Reddy

  Couple, Skills, Week

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• The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

  Plautus

  Cutting, Men, Firsts

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• Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

  Edward Abbey

  Sea, Critics, Rail

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies

  Gabby Hartnett

  Baseball, Enemy, Many Friends

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• It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.

  Pauline Kael

  Directors, Sometimes, Repetition

  Pauline Kael, Francis Davis (2002). “Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael”

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• I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.

  Kesha

  War, Party, Empires

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• Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Horse, Sleep

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• Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Horse, Essence, Fine

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1926). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist Revealed in His Own Words”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

  Tucker Carlson

  Believe, Political, Paid

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• I love being divorced. Every year has been better than the last. By the way, I'm not saying don't get married. If you meet somebody, fall in love and get married. Then get divorced. Because that's the best part. Divorce is forever! It really actually is. Marriage is for how long you can hack it. But divorce just gets stronger like a piece of oak. Nobody ever says 'oh, my divorce is falling apart, it's over, I can't take it.'

  Louis C. K.

  Falling In Love, Divorce, Love Is

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• I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

  Salman Rushdie

  Revenge, Hatred, Want

  "'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2005.

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• Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Rip, Rain, Cutting

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or later. You have to -- I don't know --you have to learn to live with yourself. You have to learn to turn back your own sheets and set a table for one without feeling pathetic. You have to be strong and confident and pleased with yourself and never give the slightest impression that you can't hack it without that certain goddamn someone. You have to fake the hell out of it.

  Armistead Maupin

  Strong, Giving, Fake

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• It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.

  Steven Pressfield

  Succeed, Culture, Pay

  "The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles". Book by Steven Pressfield, 2002.

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• No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Ideas, Long

  "There's Only One Way To Make Your Company Really Grow" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. December 04, 2013.

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• If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or hacks into rock, or slabbers onto a canvas, or pulls out of a piano.

  Robert Ruark

  Writing, Men, Rocks

  Robert Ruark (1957). “The Old Man and The Boy”

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• Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you.

  David Crosby

  Music, Years, Sometimes

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• Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

  Vincent Canby

  Curiosity, Connections, Fiction

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