Hacking Quotes

“I'd do it again. I was exploring a system. I was a neophyte. I was learning a system. The phone company is a system. A computer is a system, do you understand? If I do what I do, it is only to explore a system.”

“There's a certain joy in hacking - not breaking into computers - but in making a computer do something it was never intended to do.”

“We were explorers, not criminals.”

“Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.”

“I was never interested in money. It was all about the challenge.”

“Shut up and hack.”

“Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.”

“I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the thrill of the chase, and the escape from reality.”

“You are not a true hacker until you have written a major open-source program that has been used and appreciated by many other people.”

“My actions were unlawful, but I was not motivated by personal gain.”

“My crime is that of curiosity.”

“Playfully doing something difficult is the essence of hacking.”

“It's a basic principle of the Hacker Ethic that you should be able to create your own tools.”

“Mistrust authority—promote decentralization.”

“The hacker mindset is a way of thinking about systems and their limitations.”

“Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.”

“My primary crime was curiosity.”

“To be a hacker, you have to have a basic attitude: the world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.”

“A true hacker is not a criminal, but someone who loves to learn and explore.”

“There is no such thing as an unhackable system.”