Top 118 Hackers Quotes & Sayings

I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

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

Growth hackers don't tolerate waste.

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

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

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

I really didn't understand why hackers would want to hack into a classroom. Are they going to learn algebra? Maybe calculus?

When you choose a language, youre also choosing a community. The programmers youll be able to hire to work on a Java project wont be as smart as the ones you could get to work on a project written in Python. And the quality of your hackers probably matters more than the language you choose. Though, frankly, the fact that good hackers prefer Python to Java should tell you something about the relative merits of those languages.

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!

[Hackers] did not stop. They - they came after us absolutely every day until the end of the election. They tried to hack into our system repeatedly.

U.S. computer networks and databases are under daily cyber attack by nation states, international crime organizations, subnational groups, and individual hackers.

We face cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, global cyber syndicates, and terrorists. They seek our state secrets, our trade secrets, our technology, and our ideas - things of incredible value to all of us. They seek to strike our critical infrastructure and to harm our economy.

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

I also want to make sure that when we debate these things [hackers attacks], that we actually have the facts that are very clear in front of us to have this debate.

The one thing that I know from the personal experiences that I've had with hackers and from people in tech who are brilliant at this thing, is there's a lot of angst.

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

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.

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

As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.

I do know about stories where hackers that left Russia or Ukraine for Europe or the United States were unexpectedly arrested.

Certainly we're going to do whatever that loaded word retaliate is, we're going to do everything we can in order to prevent all of this stuff [Hackers attacks] from happening ever again.

If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

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.

We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.

Lots of Americans, they do think that yes, Russian hackers are everywhere. Russian hackers are in every fridge, Russian hackers are in every iron and so on and so forth. But this is not true. Those are fake news and this is slander.

There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

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

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.

Virality is not an accident. It is engineered. And that's why growth hackers beat traditional marketers.

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

Computer hackers do not need to know each other's real names, or even live on the same continent, to steal millions in mere hours.

A lot of hackers set up scam sites. They can impersonate a site like PayPal, for instance.

Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.

New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.

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

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.

We put up the very best cyber security - what I call infrastructure to stop them, but [hackers] constantly [didn't stop].

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.

nd the reason is is if you put a backdoor in, hackers can presumably get a hold of that backdoor as well and break it open. So you make systems less secure for everyone if you do that.

We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets.

As we work to secure our data and communications from hackers, we must recognize that our citizens face a far broader array of threats.

I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

An element of virtually every national security threat and crime problem the FBI faces is cyber-based or facilitated. We face sophisticated cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, organized cyber syndicates, and terrorists.

There are a lot of hackers today, you know, and they perform their work in such a filigreed and delicate manner and they can show their "tracks" anywhere and anytime. It may not even be a track; they can cover their activity so that it looks like hackers operating from other territories, from other countries. It is hard to check this activity, maybe not even possible. Anyway, we do not do that at the national level.

Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list.

As the world becomes more digitalized, there are more entry points for hackers.

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.

Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.

The hackers who hacked into Sony have leaked the upcoming script for the new James Bond movie. Some of the executives said the news left them shaken but not stirred.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

Growth hackers are typically computer engineers that build great marketing ideas into the product during the development process.

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

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.

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

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

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

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

Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them