Top Hacker Quotes
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
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
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 hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.
Kevin Mitnick
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
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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 
65% of people like this quote
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
60% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.
Kevin Mitnick
54% of people like this quote
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
52% of people like this quote
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
52% of people like this quote
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
50% of people like this quote
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
44% of people like this quote
I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.
Richard D. James
41% of people like this quote
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