Hacking Quotes

“Hacking is really just the act of finding a clever and counterintuitive solution to a problem.”
― Jon Erickson, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation

“There's nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.”
― Jon Erickson, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation

“The essence of hacking is finding unintended or overlooked uses for the laws and properties of a given situation and then applying them in new and inventive ways to solve a problem — whatever it may be.”
― Jon Erickson, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation

“The 8086 CPU was the first x86 processor. It was developed and manufactured by Intel, which later developed more advanced processors in the same family: the 80186, 80286, 80386, and 80486. If you remember people talking about 386 and 486 processors in the '80s and '90s, this is what they were referring to.”
― Jon Erickson, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation

“These operations move memory around, perform some sort of basic math, or interrupt the processor to get it to do something else. In the end, that's all a computer processor can really do. But in the same way millions of books have been written using a relatively small alphabet of letters, an infinite number of possible programs can be created using a relatively small collection of machine instructions.”
― Jon Erickson, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation

“Hexadecimal uses 0 through 9 to represent 0 through 9, but it also uses A through F to represent the values 10 through 15.”
― Jon Erickson, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation

“There’s nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.”
― Jon Erickson, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation

“proved that technical problems can have artistic solutions,”
― Jon Erickson, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation