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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. -- Sarah Lacy
The explosion of companies deploying wireless networks insecurely is creating vulnerabilities, as they think it's limited to the office - then they have Johnny Hacker in the parking lot with an 802.11 antenna using the network to send threatening emails to the president! -- Kevin Mitnick
Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts. -- Jonathan Lynn
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. -- Josh Klinghoffer
The guardians of your company's cyber security should be encouraged to network within the industry to swap information on the latest hacker tricks and most effective defenses. -- Nina Easton
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them? -- Anya Kamenetz
A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities. -- Kevin Mitnick
I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage. -- Kevin Mitnick
I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers. -- Justin Long
At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker. -- Kevin Mitnick
The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim. -- Kevin Mitnick
I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal. -- Mikko Hypponen
I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies. -- Kevin Mitnick
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. -- Jamie Zawinski
It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too. -- Robert Scoble
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future. -- Heather Brooke
I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare. -- Seth Gordon
If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works. -- Jamie Zawinski
I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company. -- Kevin Mitnick
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
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. -- Kevin Mitnick
News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage. -- Robert Reich
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. -- 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. -- 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. -- Kevin Mitnick
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. -- 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. -- Kevin Mitnick
Somebody could send you an office document or a PDF file, and as soon as you open it, it's a booby trap and the hacker has complete control of your computer. Another major problem is password management. People use the same password on multiple sites, so when the hacker compromises one site, they have your password for everywhere else. -- Kevin Mitnick
I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more. -- Jamie Zawinski
God is a hacker, not an engineer -- Francis Crick
It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature -- Eric S. Raymond
I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person. -- Aphex Twin
I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person. -- Aphex Twin
I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker. -- Kim Dotcom
A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things. -- Tim Berners-Lee
A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities. -- Kevin Mitnick
Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different. -- John Badham
If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter. -- will.i.am
I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up! -- Catherine Jinks
Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it. -- Lesley Stahl
Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific! -- Tad Williams
Back in my era, hacking was all about messing with other hackers. It was a hacker war. -- Michael Demon Calce
I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks. -- Dan Kaminsky
We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true. -- Reince Priebus
I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker. -- Thomas Watson, Jr.
To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things. -- Tim Berners-Lee
The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees. -- Stephen Colbert
Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. -- Eric S. Raymond
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. -- Eric S. Raymond
The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit. -- Robin Williams
I would like to repeat: I know absolutely nothing about [hacker's attacks], and Russia has never done anything like this at the State level. -- Vladimir Putin
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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. -- Eric S. Raymond
Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it. -- Charles Platt
There is no need to distract the attention of the community from the essence of the subject substituting it with secondary questions dealing with the search of those who did it [hacker's attacks]. -- Vladimir Putin
When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer. -- Seth Lloyd
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. -- Eric S. Raymond
Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker. -- John Waters

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