1. hacker - Noun
2. Hacker - Proper noun
One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBeing 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
The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network. Kevin Mitnick
The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim. Kevin Mitnick
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
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
Windows 95 and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic. Neal Stephenson