Top Hackers Quotes
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.
Dorothy Denning
See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.
Jamie Zawinski
Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
Kevin Mitnick
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
Eric S. Raymond
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
Eric S. Raymond
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All Hackers Quotes
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.
Dorothy Denning 
62% of people like this quote
See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.
Jamie Zawinski 
58% of people like this quote
Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
Kevin Mitnick 
57% of people like this quote
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
Eric S. Raymond 
56% of people like this quote
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
Eric S. Raymond 
56% of people like this quote
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.
Esther Dyson 
52% of people like this quote
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
Ken Thompson 
50% of people like this quote
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
Eric S. Raymond 
49% of people like this quote
I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
Angelina Jolie 
49% of people like this quote
