hacker Quotes and Quotations
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hacker Quotes and Quotations
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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 | top
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While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality. Dorothy Denning | top
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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 | top
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I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person. Richard D. James | top
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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 | top
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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. Kevin Mitnick | top
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Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion. Kevin Mitnick | top
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The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim. Kevin Mitnick | top
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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. Kevin Mitnick | top
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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 | top
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Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires. Eric S. Raymond | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. Eric S. Raymond | top
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Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first. George Saintsbury | top
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I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself. Goldwin Smith | top
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It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. Ken Thompson | top
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Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map. Larry Wall | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy. Jamie Zawinski | top
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Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. Jamie Zawinski | top
