1. 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.-Kevin Mitnick
2. Most hackers are young because young people tend to be adaptable. As long as you remain adaptable, you can always be a good hacker.-Emmanuel Goldstein
3. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.-Bruce Sterling
4. It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.-Dan Kaminsky
5. Younger hackers are hard to classify. They’re probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We’re all over the map.-Larry Wall
6. 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
7. Behind every successful Coder there an even more successful De-coder to understand that code.-Anonymous
8. A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness, not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”-Richard Stallman
9. A hacker does for love what others would not do for money.-Laura Creighton
10. If you rate a programmer or coder 7.5/10 on knowledge basis, you would definitely have to rate a hacker 10.-Anonymous
11. 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
12. Hacking is not a crime, it’s a profession till the time you play with it safely.-Anonymous
13. Hacking just means building something quickly or testing the boundaries of what can be done.-Mark Zuckerberg
14. There are more hackers breeding every day, and more brilliant minds are turning into hackers. Security has advanced, but so have hackers.-Michael Demon Calce
15. 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.-Dorothy E. Denning
16. The hacker mindset doesn’t actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.-Kevin Mitnick
17. Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.-Walter O’Brien
18. Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one’s thought of.-Walter O’Brien
19. The hackers don’t want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.-Vinton Cerf
20. Old hackers never die. They just go to bitnet.-Anonymous
21. The difference between a hacker and consumer is a consumer says, “I wish it would work this way.” A hacker says, “I’ve got a screwdriver and a few minutes.-Rael Dornfest
22. A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.-Tim Berners-Lee
23. While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.-Dorothy Denning
24. A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.-Kevin Mitnick
25. Hackers are actually good, pleasant and extremely intelligent people who could keep computer criminals on the run.-Ankit Fadia
26. 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
27. It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.-Ken Thompson
28. If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he’ll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.-Jamie Zawinski