Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires. Eric S. Raymond
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
New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing. Kevin Mitnick
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
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. Eric S. Raymond
Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it. Erik Naggum