Quotes About Innovation

central tenets of the Hacker Ethic: the free flow of information, particularly information that helped fellow hackers understand, explore, and build systems.

There are fun programs with jokes in them, there are exciting programs which do The Right Thing, and there are sad programs which make valiant tries but don't quite fly.

Arthur Clarke once remarked that the best technology was indistinguishable from magic.

still working hard at Google, even though they had the wealth of Saudi princes.

But mostly people hacked Tools to Make Tools. Or games. And they would come into computer stores to show off their hacks.

there were no artificial obstacles, things that are insisted upon that make it hard for people to get any work done — things like bureaucracy, security, refusals to share with other people.

more than solve them faster. You can tackle problems that haven't even been considered. You can build your own paradigms

Zuckerberg hadn't approached Thefacebook that way. He was building something that he wanted for himself, and people were naturally flocking to it. That had been the story of the giants of tech—Apple, eBay, Yahoo!, Google.

There is nothing more frustrating to a hacker than to see an extension to a system and not be able to keep hands-on.

Hackers believe that essential lessons can be learned about the systems—about the world—from taking things apart, seeing how they work, and using this knowledge to create new and even more interesting things. They resent any person, physical barrier, or law that tries to keep them from doing this.

The very best companies in the world are best not only because of their creativity, but because of their ability to implement.

project undertaken or a product built not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere involvement, was called a "hack.

Google did, however, eventually say that it is the largest computer manufacturer in the world—making its own servers requires it to build more units every year than the industry giants HP, Dell, and Lenovo.

qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style, and technical virtuosity.

When computers are sold like toasters, programs will be sold like toothpaste.

Burrell Smith, the designer of the Macintosh computer, said it as well as anyone in one of the sessions at the first Hacker Conference: "Hackers can do almost anything and be a hacker. You can be a hacker carpenter. It's not necessarily high tech. I think it has to do with craftsmanship and caring about what you're doing.

but by and large ITS proved that the best security was no security at all.

engineering comes down to two real principles: The first is that you think of every problem as a system. And every system can be better. No matter how good or bad it is, you can make anything better—

In their view, hacking would be better served by using the best system possible.

The basic requirements were sky-high intelligence and unquenchable ambition. A more elusive criterion was one's Googliness.

A computer gives the average person, a high school freshman, the power to do things in a week that all the mathematicians who ever lived until thirty years ago couldn't do.

the Hacker Ethic, which instructs you to keep working until your hack tops previous efforts.

Every problem has a better solution when you start thinking about it differently than the normal way.

To hackers, a program was an organic entity that had a life independent from that of its author.