Hackers – Quotes

As economic life relies

As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing. Evgeny Morozov

Well, take the evolution

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

Let’s just hope that

Let’s just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it. Erik Naggum

From the Latin word imponere, base of the obsolete English impone and translated as impress in modern English, Nordic hackers have coined the terms imponator (a device that does nothing but impress bystanders, referred to as the imponator effect) and imponade (that goo that fills you as you get impressed with something – from marmelade, … Read more

It is widely grokked

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature Eric S. Raymond

A critical factor in

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

In early 1993, a

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

The workstation-class machines built

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. Eric S. Raymond

The beginnings of the

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

Being able to break

Being able to break security doesn’t make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. Eric S. Raymond