#hacker

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#big #big picture #great #great thing #hacker

Dear 2600: I need someone with the abilities to get into my school server and change a few things. I have saved up $3500 over the past year for this and am willing to pay it in cash, as I am from the Winnipeg area. Desperate doesnt begin to cover it. Whatever your problems, and we certainly wont try to minimize them, they are nothing compared to the world of hurt you’ll enter if you do stupid things like offer complete strangers money to help you do illegal things…..There should be something in your genetic code that alerts you to the fact that you're doing something extremely stupid and wrong. So we’re clear, the offer was in Canadian dollars and not American, right? ↗

— Emmanuel Goldstein

#change

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

— Jamie Zawinski

#engineering #hacker #i #i do #might

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

#figure #first #first thing #give #hacker

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

— Jamie Zawinski

#get #hackers #how #i #install

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

#became #began #civil #civil liberties #electronic