Hackers (1995) - Quotes

Taglines: Mess with the best, die like the rest.

Taglines: There is no right or wrong, only fun and boring

Taglines: You thought your secrets were safe. You were wrong.

Taglines: Their crime is curiosity.

Taglines: Boot Up or Shut Up!

Taglines: Hack the Planet!

Dade: You look good in a dress.

Kate: You would have looked better.

Kate: Are you challenging me?

Dade: Name your stakes.

Kate: If I win, you become my slave.

Dade: Your slave?

Kate: You wish! You'll do shitwork, scan, crack copyrights...

Dade: And if I win?

Kate: Make it my first born!

Dade: Make it our first date!

Kate: I don't DO dates. But I don't lose either, so you're on!

Kate: Why'd he come to you?

Dade: I got a record! I was Zero Cool'!

Nikon: Zero Cool? Crashed fifteen hundred and seven computers in one day? Biggest crash in history, front page New York Times August 10th, 1988. I thought you was black man. YO THIS IS ZERO COOL!

Kate: [points at Dade while angrily addressing Phreak] What is he doing here?

Phreak: Relax, Burn. He's my guest.

Dade: [realizing who Kate really is] Burn", you're Acid Burn. You booted me out of OTV.

Kate: [visibly confused] What?

Dade: [offers a handshake to Kate] I'm Crash Override.

Kate: [incredulously] You're the moron that's been invading my turf?!

Cereal: [clearly amused as he steps between Kate and Dade; Motions to Dade; proceeds to motion to Kate; hoots and laughs] Wait-wait-wait-wait! "Crash and Burn?!

The Plague: I'd like to make a treaty with you.

Dade: [confused] I'm sorry, who are you?

The Plague: I'm the one who understands you. Now, can we be allies?

Dade: [Ponders a moment before responding defiantly] Naaah. I don't play well with others.

Cereal Killer: [They stop outside a door, which Phreak knocks on] Nice place, huh?

Dade: You guys ever hear of a hacker called "Acid Burn"? Do you know who he is?

Phreak: [To Cereal; Cereal merely shrugs. The door finally opens, revealing a man wearing a hooded cloak] ...no. Don't know who he is. Do you?

Phreak: [Motions to Dade] Lord Nikon! This is...

Dade: Crash Override.

Paul "Lord Nikon" Cook: Never heard of you. Done anything?

Dade: [Nikon promptly slams the door shut] No.

Phreak: [Bangs on the door] Come onnnn!

Cereal: Man, I hate this neighborhood.

Nikon: [Opens the door and sneers at Dade, asking mockingly; Scoffs before looking to Phreak] What, did your mom buy you a puter for Christmas? Does he know anything?

Phreak: Sure, man. He's elite.

Nikon: [Regards Dade once more before stepping aside; Dade, Phreak, and Cereal enter, but Cereal pauses] Come in.

Cereal: Yo, Nikon, can I crash at your place tonight?

Nikon: [sternly; Pushes his hood back to look at Cereal before eventually smiling and nodding; They both laugh and begin to mock-fight with one another, complete with exaggerated martial arts cries as Nikon shuts the door] Again? Yeah sure, man.

The Plague: Our recent unknown intruder penetrated using the superuser account, giving him access to our whole system.

Margo: Precisely what you're paid to prevent.

The Plague: [Plague looks directly at Margo, who glares right back at him] Someone didn't bother reading my carefully prepared memo on commonly-used passwords. Now, then, as I so meticulously pointed out, the four most-used passwords are: love, sex, secret, and... god. So, would your holiness care to change her password?

Operator: [on pay phone] Please deposit five dollars for the first minute.

Operator: Thank you.

Phreak: No no no, thank YOU!

Mrs. Murphy: What did you learn in school today?

Dade: Revenge.

Ramόn "Phantom Phreak" Sanchez: So, uh, what's your interest in Kate Libby, eh? Academic? Purely sexual?

Dade: Homicidal.

Phreak: [Dade simply looks at him; Dade doesn't react; Starts to hand something to Dade] What's up, man? I'm the Phreak. The "Phantom Phreak"? The "King of Nynex"? I know you play the game. Here--

Joey Pardello: [runs up to Phreak and Dade, frantically] Phreak-Phreak-Phreak-Phreak-Phreak-Phreak! Dude-dude-dude-dude-dude-dude!

Phreak: [smacks Joey a few times to calm him down] Joey, Joey, Joey! One more "dude" outta you, and I'mma slap the shit outta you, ok?! Now I keep trying to save you from yourself, but you gotta stop letting your mama dress you, man! You're hopeless!

Joey: Look, I need a handle, ok? I don't have an identity if I don't have a handle.

Phreak: [Phreak turns to Dade again and hands him a flyer; Dade looks at the flyer while Phreak leaves with Joey following after him] You know, you're right about that. Check it, Friday.

Joey: How about "The Master of Disaster"?

Phreak: You're hopeless, man. Utterly hopeless.

Joey: Ultra Laser"? "Doctor Doom"?

Mrs. Murphy: Dade?

Dade: Yeah Ma?

Mrs. Murphy: What are you doing?

Dade: I'm taking over a TV Network.

Mrs. Murphy: Finish up honey, and get some sleep. Happy Birthday.

Razor: Remember, hacking is more than just a crime. It's a survival trait.

Blade: Never again pay for a service that would be free... if it weren't run by profiteering gluttons!

Ramόn "Phantom Phreak" Sanchez: Now I keep trying to save you from yourself, but you gotta stop letting your mama dress you, man! You're hopeless!

Emmanuel "Cereal Killer" Goldstein: Yo.... I kinda feel like God!

Emmanuel "Cereal Killer" Goldstein: [Pause] Listen, we got a higher purpose here, alright? A wakeup call for the Nintendo Generation. We demand free access to data, well, it comes with some responsibility. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things. What... It's Corinthians I, Chapter 13, verse 11, no duh. Come on.

Emmanuel "Cereal Killer" Goldstein: Look at that pooper. Spandex; it's a privilege, not a right!

Emmanuel "Cereal Killer" Goldstein: [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984; [George Orwell|Orwell] FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. ]? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. ] is here now. He's livin large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!

Eugene "The Plague" Belford: Kid, don't threaten me. There are worse things than death, and uh, I can do all of them.

Eugene "The Plague" Belford: You wanted to know who I am, Zero Cool? Well, let me explain the New World Order. Governments and corporations need people like you and me. We are Samurai... the Keyboard Cowboys... and all those other people out there who have no idea what's going on are the cattle... Moooo.

Eugene "The Plague" Belford: God wouldn't be up this late.

Eugene "The Plague" Belford: There is no right or wrong, just fun and boring.

Eugene "The Plague" Belford: Never fear, I is here.

Kate "Acid Burn" Libby: Never send a boy to do a woman's job.

Dade "Zero Cool" "Crash Override" Murphy: Mess with the best, die like the rest. Hlo