100+ Best Cyber Security & Hacker Quotes, Sayings

100+ Best Cyber Security & Hacker Quotes, Sayings

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100+ Best Cyber Security & Hacker Quotes for wisdom in cyber security. Read, rate or share your favorite quotes.

Quote by Emmanuel Goldstein

What hackers do is figure out technology and experiment with it in ways many people never imagined. They also have a strong desire to share this information with others and to explain it to people whose only qualifications may be the desire to learn.

Emmanuel Goldstein
Quote by Dennis Ritchie

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

Dennis Ritchie
Anonymous Quote

Behind every successful Coder there an even more successful DeCoder to understand that code.

Anonymous
Quote by M. Uğur Aksu

Software vulnerabilities, though very common, are not the biggest threat to security. Rather, the real threats are your users and your hardware. The bad news is, we don’t have a reasonable level of understanding on them. Even worse, we wouldn’t have even if we wanted to.

M. Uğur Aksu
Quote by Laura Creighton

A hacker does for love what others would not do for money.

Laura Creighton
Quote by Dorothy E. Denning

While the vast majority of hackers may be disciplined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

Dorothy E. Denning
Quote by A. J. Darkholme

The weakest link in any chain of security is not the technology itself, but the person operating it.

A.J. Darkholme
Quote by John David McAfee

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cyber tools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else’s data.

John David McAfee
Quote by John McAfee

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker’s toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

John McAfee
Quote by Kevin Mitnick

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

Kevin Mitnick
Quote by Kevin Mitnick

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information on your network.

Kevin Mitnick
Quote by Kevin Mitnick

The intent of the individuals who created the DDOS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.

Kevin Mitnick
Quote by Eric S. Raymond

Being able to break security doesn’t make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automative engineer.

Eric S. Raymond
Quote by Adi Shamir

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

Adi Shamir
Quote by John McAfee

The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.

John McAfee
Quote by Bill Gates

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Bill Gates
Quote by Wietse Venema

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

Wietse Venema
Quote by John Steinbeck

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

John Steinbeck
Quote by James Wood Krutch

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Joseph Wood Krutch
Quote by Edsger Dijkstra

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Edsger Dijkstra