Clifford Stoll Quotes


"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
- Clifford Stoll
(Related: Computer)

"While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language."
- Clifford Stoll
(Related: People, Feeling, Language, World)

"When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube."
- Clifford Stoll
"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."
- Clifford Stoll
(Related: Months)

"Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community."
- Clifford Stoll
(Related: Time, Family, Life, People, Community, Friends)

"If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody."
- Clifford Stoll
(Related: World)

"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom."
- Clifford Stoll
(Related: Wisdom, Knowledge, Information, Understanding)

"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s."
- Clifford Stoll
(Related: Computers)

"The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity."
- Clifford Stoll
(Related: Internet)