Hacking Quotes

“Ethical hacking!! Is it not an oxymoron?”

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

“Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing.”

“Every conceivable layer of the election process is completely riddled with vulnerabilities, so yes, hacking elections is easy!”

“You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life.”

“I am not a wishing well with legs. (Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.)”

“What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.”

“Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.”

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.”