“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require librarians that… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
“VI was predecessor to hundreds of word processing systems. By now, Unix folks see it as a bit stodgy—it hasn’t the versatility of Gnu-Emacs,… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place. — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper. — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it. — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work. — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The astronomer's rule of thumb: if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen” — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure. — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
“Over the past decade Stallman created a powerful editing program called Gnu-Emacs. But Gnu’s much more than just a text editor. It’s easy to… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
