Hack Quotes

The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.

I’m an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it’s something worthy of study and love.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

First of all, a giant corporation probably shouldn’t be being hacked by teenagers. I put that on the corporation, not the teenagers. Teenagers are going to do what teenagers are going to do – rebelling. But if they’re able to hack a big corporation, that seems like the corporation should be better at security.

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people’s privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don’t hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

Hack Days were initially started for Yahoo employees.

Beto is not a transformational political saviour. He is a hypocritical hack who’s so lightweight he goes where the wind blows even if it tumbles him and the economy to irreversible hell.

The Grand Bargain is a Grand Lie. Anyone who argues for it is either a fool or a charlatan. If President Obama was anything but the establishment hack that he is, he would never consider it.

Some computers have security software that make it impossible to hack into, and it’s the same with brains – some malfunction, and some, you can’t hack into them at all.

It’s a fine line between hack and good comedy.

I was once called a hack, and when you put as much emotion into a piece of work as I do, to be called a hack is really heartbreaking.

I don’t think I could hack it in the 200m.

I am not a political thinker. I’m not even much of a thinker. I’m a hack novelist.

I’ve never been paid by or colluded with any Russian to hack the D.N.C., to create search-engine optimization tools to cause Trump’s positives up and Hillary’s negatives up. I’ve never been to Prague.

I really didn’t understand why hackers would want to hack into a classroom. Are they going to learn algebra? Maybe calculus?

No matter which party is in the White House, doubt in America’s democratic institutions rattles our nation to its core. This should not be a partisan issue for any reason, as any candidate or party could be on the receiving end of a hack at any time.

I believe China is a major trade violator. The Chinese break all the rules. They counterfeit our goods, steal our international property rights, and hack the computers of our industries and government. Something must be done about it.

I don’t believe I’m psychic, but if I can get people to focus on a specific thought, I can hack into brains and figure out what they’re thinking.

I honestly don’t think I can hack it in the 9-to-5 world, though I’ve never actually tried.

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it’s actually easier than it was years ago.

When I became a standup comic, my hero, one of them, was Richard Pryor, and you know, I think that comedians, like, comedians talk about hacks, and what a hack is, is someone who does stuff that’s not original.

I don’t know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.

I couldn’t do anything. I’d work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn’t hack it. I couldn’t even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

Every single day, agents of certain foreign governments are relentlessly and methodically trying to hack into our corporations’ computer networks and steal blueprints for next-generation equipment and products from some of America’s largest exporters.

To be clear, any attempt to hack or to do anything nefarious is wrong and illegal.

It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.

When Target gets hacked, I don’t hear people saying, ‘Hey, was it Kohl’s? Was it Wal-Mart?’ It doesn’t matter. There was a hack; you deal with it.

I don’t want to hack my dinner, and I don’t want to disrupt my cookware. I just want to cook tasty food like everyone else, using cookware that works. But if someone comes along with a product that is genuinely better, well, I’m all ears.

I take policy seriously; I’m not just trying to be a political hack.

When I first started buying shoes with my own money, I would always get them from eBay. I used to hack my mum’s account, and suddenly these white cowboy leather boots would arrive.

It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists – Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who’s down.

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver’s door of a car.

The times in my life I’ve felt the most alive is when I’m having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture.

If you’re a young kid out there, put away your Twitter accounts if you want to be a pro football player. Somebody’s going to hack your account; somebody’s going to cause you problems.

I know that people hate me. And I know I’m just a hack journalist and what we do on ‘Lifestyles’ isn’t what you would call television brain surgery.

I didn’t think that college math was for me. I didn’t think I’d be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.

John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.

You are going to look comfortable only if your feel comfortable. That is probably the only fashion hack.

Big Stephen King fan. I think he’s dismissed often as a hack probably because of his prolific body of work, but he’s anything but. I think he’s a terrific writer. And not just a genre writer; he really approaches a number of complexities in everything he writes. So I’m a huge fan.

I’m severely overrated. I’m just above a hack.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

The fact you can manipulate people because you can hack them and learn everything about their personal lives – that’s an immense amount of power.

Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work.

Even as she approaches 90, the Queen is sometimes glimpsed with her headscarf tied firmly under her chin riding her favourite hack, Emma – one of the fell ponies she breeds.

Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don’t want to fall into that.

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn’t have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.

It feels like my hard work has paid off, but at the same time, I still have the impostor, you know, syndrome. I still feel like I’m going to wake up, and everybody’s going to see me for the hack I am.

I don’t think there is an era of autocuties. I think if there is such a thing as an autocutie they weed themselves out because they can’t hack it.

It may be time for serious literary novelists to take back some of the subject matter we abandoned to hack novelists and the movies.

We won. The media. We destroyed Barry Bonds, drove him crazy, turned the most disciplined and feared hitter the game has ever known into a fence-swinging hack, drained all the excitement out of his 714 home runs.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God’s domain?

The thing about ‘Spectre’ is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The actors are not hams.

I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we’ve always found a hole.

So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy – being the thing that I should be most interested in – and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn’t hack the senior class.

As my marriage was slowly dissolving into silent meals and awkward nights of avoiding conversation, I started pondering an unmarried future and wondered if I’d ever be able to hack being single again.

And it’s not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don’t view it as that; it’s just that there’s something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.

If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you’re a hack.