The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

I believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under a single rug for essentially political reasons, and that the identification of HIV as the sole pathogen is likely to go down as one of the most colossal blunders in the history of medicine.

With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

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

Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages.

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.