Hacking Quotes

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau

Evil, Thousand, Striking

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Problems, Roots, Leaves

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.
Kevin Mitnick

Government, Actions, Involved

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
Richard Stallman

Happy, Free, Sometimes

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.
Kevin Mitnick

Cool, School, Young

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
Kevin Mitnick

Business, Knowledge, Before

I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.
Kevin Mitnick

Technology, Game, Getting

It's actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you're dealing drugs. If you get caught you're going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it's much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none.
Kevin Mitnick

Time, Actually, Risk

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

Before, Difference, Paid

Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.
Kevin Mitnick

Down, Serious, Financial

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.
Kevin Mitnick

Knowledge, Past, Working

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

True, Become, Security

I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.
Kevin Mitnick

Writing, Challenge, Adventure

I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.
Kevin Mitnick

Passion, Control, Able

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.
Steve Coogan

Crime, Victim, Phone

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
Steve Wozniak

Strange, Getting, Playing

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.
Dorothy Denning

Powerful, Next, Grow

It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.
Evan Glodell

Time, Long, Different

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
J. F. C. Fuller

Enemy, Brain, Through

I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.
Jennifer Wyatt

Around, Started, Yard

You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.
Tom A. Watson

Life, Before, Fate

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