12.01 — Every manifesto quote, sourced#
The Holy Book is packed with quotes whose origin is never announced in the text. They are passwords: if you recognize them, you know where the author comes from; otherwise, you read the slogan without the subtext.
Listing#
| # | Quote (Holy Book) | Author / Source | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “In the Lulzboat, salute, bitch, and show some respect.” | YTCracker — #antisec (single, official theme song of Operation AntiSec). Spotify track, YTCracker Wikipedia page | June 22, 2011 |
| 2 | “THE FUCK YOU THINK THIS IS? You HOLLOW! YOU HOLLOW, YOU UNDERSTAND ME? YOU’RE WORTHLESS, YOU’RE FUCKING TRASH!”, signed “(btw: RIP, DG descendant…)”, then continued in French: “ON VA TE REMPLACER ET TU RETOURNERAS HARCELER TES PAIRS SUR DOTA ET TE BRANLER SUR DES MACROS VBA COMME UNE MERDE! […] YOU FUCKED WITH US!” | Yung Innanet (kayos) — lyrics from true colors, SoundCloud — queed-inc/true-colors. Original sysadmin of VX Underground, GitHub profile. Passed away on October 18, 2025. The DG descendant refers to Digital Gangster, YTCracker’s forum. See 06-yung-innanet-vxug.md | — |
| 3 | “Of currency minted from factoring digits” (in French in the Holy Book: “ces monnaies forgées de la factorisation des nombres”) | YTCracker — Cryptoilluminati (album A Side Quest for Fractional Cents). SoundCloud. Exact line: “Told you to snap up a modest position / Of currency minted from factoring digits / Which of you listened?” | 2022 |
| 4 | “We Can Do All What You Can’t Do.” | Indonesian collective YogyaCarderLink (YCL) mantra, one of the earliest carding / defacement groups based in Yogyakarta. See 05-indonesian-hackers.md | early 2000s |
| 5 | “I’m the bug you can’t kill." — Holy Book: “Je suis le bug dont tu ne pourras jamais te débarrasser.” | Not reliably attributable. Idiom of the 2000s hacker scene, in the lineage of “I’m the null at the end of the string” (YTCracker, Nerdlife, 2006). See 03-ytcracker-nerdcore-digital-gangster.md | — |
| 6 | “HACK THE PLANET” | Iconic slogan of the 1990s hacker scene. Popular origin: the film Hackers (1995, Iain Softley), war cry of the character Cereal Killer. Picked up by the real scene (mailing lists, defaces, conferences). | 1995 (spread) |
| 7 | “YOU FUCKED WITH US!” / “Don’t fuck with us.” | Direct callback to the Don't fuck with us mantra, recurring signature of YogyaCarderLink deface pages and more broadly of the 2000s carding/defacement scene. The shift from future/present ("don’t”, warning) to past ("you fucked", finding) is the rhetorical pivot: we warned you, you did it anyway. See 05-indonesian-hackers.md and 02-lulzsec-lulzboat-antisec.md | 2000s |
| 8 | “Fucking skids. Fucking normies!” | Native IRC terms: skid = abbreviation of script kiddie; normie = average / uninitiated user. Not a single attributable quote — it’s EFnet / 2600 / Digital Gangster speech. See 04-zoneh-irc-efnet.md | — |
| 9 | “from Zone-H to a settled life” | Zone-H = public deface archive, founded on March 2, 2002 by Roberto Preatoni (Sys64738). See 04-zoneh-irc-efnet.md | 2002 |
| 10 | “CODE IS LAW” | Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, MIT 1999. Warning cry on regulation by code. Repurposed as ideal by crypto / Ethereum from 2015 onward. | 1999 / 2015 |
| 11 | “Also read: Haters, by Paul Graham.” | Essay by Paul Graham (Y Combinator co-founder), paulgraham.com/fh.html. On hostile online comments. | — |
| 12 | “I won’t let you pay me for my open source — Fuck You” | David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), Ruby on Rails creator. Blog post Hey. | — |
| 13 | “Retry flaky blocks.” | Yegor Bugayenko, Prompt (github.com/yegor256/prompt). Author of Angry Tests. | — |
| 14 | “An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity…” | Terry Davis (1969–2018), TempleOS creator. Considered by some “the smartest programmer who ever lived”. Programmer affected by schizophrenia and one of the most iconic victims of cyber-harassment. | — |
| 15 | “To gain knowledge, add things every day. To gain wisdom, remove things every day.” | Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching. Alternative for those who don’t dare quote Terry A. Davis due to controversy. | 6th century B.C. |
| 16 | “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars (1939). | 1939 |
| 17 | “Style, for both writer and painter, is a matter not of technique but of vision.” | Marcel Proust (interview). | — |
| 18 | “For now, live the questions…” | Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1903-1908). | 1903-1908 |
| 19 | “Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” | Attributed to Alan Watts. | — |
| 20 | “Peace out.” → YTCracker — Robots Will Definitely Take Your Job | YTCracker, SoundCloud. The title is the thesis: AI will replace incompetent coders. The expression “Peace out” is regularly used in this community as a casual / cold farewell. | — |
Related reading#
- Hacker scene axis (1, 7, 9, 11) →
02-lulzsec-lulzboat-antisec.md,04-zoneh-irc-efnet.md - YTCracker / Nerdcore axis (1, 3, 5, 20) →
03-ytcracker-nerdcore-digital-gangster.md - Indonesian axis (4) →
05-indonesian-hackers.md - Yung Innanet axis (2) →
06-yung-innanet-vxug.md - Philosophical / wisdom axis (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) → already covered in
../01-philosophy/04-citations-and-influences.md - Politics of code axis (10, 11, 12, 13) → already covered in
../01-philosophy/05-political-stance.md
Why sources matter#
The Holy Book never cites its sources. Not by negligence, by scene convention: if you recognize, you belong; if you don’t, you read the surface text, which also works. It’s a literary device as old as underground communities. LulzSec did it on their pastebins.
Restoring sources doesn’t betray the spirit: it makes it readable for those who didn’t grow up on those IRC channels. And the target user (a developer or tester discovering Ocarina) has no reason to have grown up there. Without this map, half the reading is missing.