Top 30 Hacker Quotes

In this post, you will find great Hacker Quotes from famous people, such as John McAfee, Adam Draper, Mikko Hypponen, Robert Reich, Sarah Lacy. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

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.

John McAfee

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.

Adam Draper

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

Mikko Hypponen

News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker’s garage.

Robert Reich

Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don’t take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don’t like. They seek to outsmart the world.

Sarah Lacy

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

Richard D. James

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

I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind ‘reader,’ exactly; more a mind ‘radar,’ in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn’t feel.

Samantha Shannon

The rudest possible gift is a gift card. It means you think the person is stupid and has no interests. The only good gift card is Bitcoin. You practically have to be a hacker to know about it.

John Waters

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.

Finn Wolfhard

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.

Kevin Mitnick

A smartphone links patients‘ bodies and doctors‘ computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual‘s internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.

Charles C. Mann

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else‘s data.

John McAfee

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

John McAfee

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

John McAfee

People in tech love to see their work as embodying the ‘hacker ethos‘: a desire to break systems down in order to change them. But this pride can often be conveyed rather clumsily.

Jenna Wortham

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.

Josh Klinghoffer

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.

DeRay Mckesson

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

Kevin Mitnick

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.

Nina Easton

Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president‘s sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur – I would say serious amateur – painter.

Roberta Smith

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.

John Waters

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

Kevin Mitnick

It’s true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.

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

If you’re a juvenile delinquent today, you’re a hacker. You live in your parent‘s house; they haven‘t seen you for two months. They put food outside your door, and you’re shutting down a government of a foreign country from your computer.

John Waters

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.

Ad-Rock

I’m still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.

Kevin Mitnick

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

Heather Brooke

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.

Charles Platt

Top 30 Hacker Quotes

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