Hacks Quotes

• Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

  Bette Midler

  Can Do, I Can

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• Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized.

  Anil Dash

  Morning, Home, Funeral

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2013

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• Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

  Bruce Schneier

  People, Computer, Security

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• 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.

  Matt Taibbi

  Men, Blue, Self

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• That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard.

  Polybius

  Friendship, Country, Mistake

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• And did you have to hack his arms off?” “Yes, I did. He wouldn’t go through the door.” “You say it like you’re proud of it." I was proud of it. It was an example of quick thinking in a difficult situation.

  Ilona Andrews

  Thinking, Doors, Difficult Situations

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.144, Penguin

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

  Paul Westerberg

  Song, Truth, Writing

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• Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw

  Homer

  Dog, Parent, Wish

  Homer (1963). “The Iliad”

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• Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back.

  Dr. Seuss

  Fall, Air, Axes

  The Lorax (1971)

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• In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.

  Dean Koontz

  Daughter, Queens, Real

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• It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Cat, Looks, Way

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• Shigure: "What's in the camera? Huh? Huh? What is it?" Hatori: "Quiet, you hack.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Cameras, Quiet

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• This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.

  Dan Brown

  Agency, Databases, Attempting

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• Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Taken, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 02, 2015

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• What is a fleecy as a cloud, As majestic and shimmering as the breaking dawn, As gorgeous as the sun the sun is strong? Why, it's ME! Twilight, the Great Gray, Tiger of the sky --- Light of the Night, Most beautiful, An avian delight. I beam --- I gleam --- I'm a livin' flying dream. Watch me roll off this cloud and pop on back. This is flying. I ain't no hack.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Beautiful, Dream, Strong

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians”, p.190, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  Orson Welles

  Hobbies, Making Money, Abandon

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• As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Apathy, Mediocrity, Myopia

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.139, Ballantine Books

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• This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Men, Ideas

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• If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

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• 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.

  James Earl Jones

  Senior, Years, Class

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Letting Go, Crazy

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• 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.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Math, College

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• As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

  Rachel Cusk

  Motherhood, Feelings, Being A Mother

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• 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.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Break, Holes, Found

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

  Kevin Mitnick

  Years, Computer, Sometimes

  "A convicted hacker debunks some myths". Interview with Manav Tanneeru, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2005.

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