Hacks Quotes - Page 6

• The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

  John McGraw

  Boys, Desire, Necks

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• It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Mean, Simple

  "On Hacking". stallman.org. 2002.

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• A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Horse, Scandal, Fool

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• Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like, hack at them in a baffled fury—you cannot find life itself, you can only see what it built out of the lifeless dust.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Cutting, Dust, Flesh

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• My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Sobriety, Dawn, Vices

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• One of the great things about Houston is that they police themselves. It's the way Boston was in the '80s. No hacks or thieves are tolerated in the community, and that's HUGE.

  Joe Rogan

  Boston, Community, Police

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• I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

  Dennis Crowley

  Together, Execution, Enough

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• The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.

  Sam Altman

  Firm, Can Do

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• I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  New York, Editors, Diplomats

  Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

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• The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.

  Henry Miller

  Men, White Man, Mexican

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.156, New Directions Publishing

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• Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles, airplanes, rockets, nuclear weapons, satellites, or space exploration. There's a lot they didn't know about. It would be interesting to see what kind of document they'd draft today. Just keeping it frozen in time won't hack it.

  Ross Perot

  Airplane, Space, Interesting

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• ...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.

  Larry King

  Media, Years, People

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• Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.

  Larry King

  Smart, Ignorance, Average

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• I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer than me is brilliant. So of course that makes me a horrible critic when it comes to books, because I can't distance my own experience from what I'm doing.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Distance, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• To call me a partisan hack is ludicrous. [...] I am the least partisan person I know.

  Tucker Carlson

  Call Me, Partisans, Persons

  "State Of The Union With John King". Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz, transcripts.cnn.com. March 15, 2009.

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• Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Phones, Amy, Tabloids

  Twitter post from Jul 23, 2011

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• A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

  William Faulkner

  Color, Europe, Fire

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• I think nobody can get me out. I've got a pretty good idea of what I want to hit. If I get my pitch, I'm going to get a hack in. And if I don't get you this time, I'll get you next time. I'm not saying I'm better than anybody, but I am saying that nobody is better than me.

  Carlos Delgado

  Thinking, Ideas, Want

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• Online journalism has rendered us all news wire hacks - get it posted fast, forget about context or nuance or interpretation, and errors will be fixed on the fly.

  Rosie DiManno

  Errors, Wire, News

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• New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.

  James Purdy

  New York, Book, Broken

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Loss, Cards, Banking

  "A convicted hacker debunks some myths". Interview with Manav Tanneeru, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2005.

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• If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Coward, Speech, Ifs

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• The most depressing thing about blogging is watching so-called 'citizen journalists' turn in to little more than easily offended partisan hacks. Any remark that is slightly less than completely and totally scripted and can give the slightest opportunity to offend some delicate soul somewhere is used to set off a series of partisan screeches and cries of outrage that would make the Church Lady jealous.

  John Cole

  Depressing, Jealous, Opportunity

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• Trying to change the world is like trying to straighten the curly tail of a dog. Try as you might, it will still go hack to its natural curl. Your hands will become stronger from the exercise of trying to straighten the curly tail. Although you max' not he able to change the world, you would have acquired more spiritual strength within - and that alone will make a difference in the world.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Dog, Exercise

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• In the absence of big budgets, start-ups learned how to hack the system to build their companies.

  Micah Baldwin

  Growth, Absence, Bigs

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