"To hack means to be resourceful, to take a look at a problem and be creative in your approach." -Kim Pham, head of platform for Frontline Ventures
"That’s what helps everything click for me, when I get to build something tangible that’s pretty and does cool stuff. I’m not thrilled at the idea of calculating a bunch of stuff for the sake of calculating." -Terri Burns, head of business development at Tech@NYU
"I’ve loved games since I was a kid. So many people feel this way, but I feel like a giant kid most of the time." -Raj Sidhu, Code Monkey Island
"When we saw sixth-graders excited to engage in high-level problem solving, we know we achieved our goal and that’s the kind of classroom success that we want to build upon." -Lissa Johnson, Mosa Mack
"It took me awhile to realize how creative programming is. Until you gain fluency with the syntax of any language, you don’t know how to use it." -Waine Tam, web developer and entrepreneur
"For what it’s worth, hacking changed my life. I would have been a lawyer if I had never been to my first hackathon." -Swift, Major League Hacking
"I deeply believe in the power of technology to change the way people live their lives. I don’t necessarily mean that in like, a bougie way, because I’m a yuppie in San Francisco with too many apps to do all my bull----." -Amy Quispe, developer programs engineer at Google
"I’m not trying to launch rockets to the moon, you know. I’m trying to put a goddam beauty mobile outside of New York City, that’s it." -Anastasiya, founder of The Beaut Commute
"Right now if we sat down for about a half an hour, we could start a web hosting company. Most people don’t know that. It’s one of the most competitive industries you could ever get into." -Michael Lisovetsy, LiveApplicant
"I accidentally taught myself CSS when I was in high school because I had a LiveJournal and I wanted to change how the LiveJournal looked." -Ana Becker, Wall Street Journal
"Sometimes you get so deep into your world that you forget that the world doesn’t even know that programmers exist, never mind open source." -Vanessa Hurst, founder of Developers for Good
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