Top 100 Hacker Quotes & Sayings

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

I look like a geeky hacker but I don’t know anything about computers.

I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.

I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.

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

I would love to be in an action movie. I've always wanted to play the hacker guy - like, the Jewy hacker guy who just gets yelled at.

I was interested in computer programming as a kid. In fact, during my college days, I used to be a hacker.

I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.

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].

What fashion has started from hackers? They have bad posture, and they don't go out. I wish I had a hacker boyfriend - they stay at home up in the bedroom.

Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker.

God is a hacker, not an engineer

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.

Do you think the Chinese think twice about hiring a hacker with a mohawk or a tattooed face? No.

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.

A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

It was on a bulletin board that I first learned about hacker culture, the 'Let's just break through this wall and see what's on the other side' mentality.

Most of my life's information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my credit card information.

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

Back in my era, hacking was all about messing with other hackers. It was a hacker war.

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.

There are many factors that impact the value of login credentials sold on the dark web. The main factor is how easy it is for a hacker to resell the merchandise, especially from a brand name, i.e., it's easier to sell an Apple iPhone over a pair of boots. Another factor that contributes to cost on the dark web is if there is a credit card saved on the account file and whether the stolen credentials have been verified. This means that a hacker was able to verify a successful login and the owner/consumer hasn't changed their password so we can expect even more fraud transactions to come.

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.

My background, I really am a computer hacker. I've studied computer science, I work in computer security. I'm not an actively a hacker, I'm an executive but I understand the mindset of changing a system to get the outcome that you want. It turns out to make the coffee, the problem is actually how the beans get turn into green coffee. That's where most of the problems happen.

To see a hacker actually hacking is not the most interesting thing visually, and it's pretty boring as an actor: a hacker taps on her keyboard. There's really not much more than that.

I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.

I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.

I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.

Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

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.

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.

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

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.

Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.

We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true.

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.

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees.

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.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”

When a hacker gains access to any corporate data, the value of that data depends on which server, or sometimes a single person's computer, that the hacker gains access to.

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.

I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!

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.

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.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

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.

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

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.

Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.

At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker.

I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

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

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.