Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's like a child that is born and wants to explore every little - open up every little drawer there is and find out how the world works.

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

Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

I met a lot of hackers, and some of them were very arrogant. They thought I was stupid because I couldn't follow what they were talking about. But then I met this great guy whom companies hire to find their security holes, and he was very good about explaining so I could understand.

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

Even in technology, you have the freedom to solve a problem your way, you see. But it naturally sits in a certain framework whereas, in the physics, everybody had to come up with his own idea what he was going to do.

I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.

I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.

Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

The difference between a hacker and consumer is a consumer says, "I wish it would work this way." A hacker says, "I've got a screwdriver and a few minutes.

It was on a bulletin board that I first learned about hacker culture, the 'Let's just break through this wall and see what's on the other side' mentality.

At Nintendo, we think deeply about everything.

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.