"See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy"

"Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer"

"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"

"The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers"

"I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person"

"If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works"

"Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause"

"It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution"

"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"

"The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim"

"While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm"