Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my… — Clifford Stoll Community 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… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place. — Clifford Stoll Apologizing Copy Share Image
Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper. — Clifford Stoll Cement 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 Months Copy Share Image
There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it. — Clifford Stoll Access Copy Share Image
No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work. — Clifford Stoll Computer 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… — Clifford Stoll Web page 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 Book 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… — Clifford Stoll Programming 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… — Clifford Stoll Cds Copy Share Image
Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your… — Clifford Stoll Dinner Copy Share Image
The virtual community? The word virtual does not mean "virtue." It means "not." When I go to the store and they say:… — Clifford Stoll Block Copy Share Image
Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page… — Clifford Stoll Book Copy Share Image
All truth is one. In this light, may science and religion endeavor here for the steady evolution of mankind, from darkness to… — Clifford Stoll Biology Copy Share Image
While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I… — Clifford Stoll Admire Copy Share Image
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? — Clifford Stoll Addict Copy Share Image
Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of… — Clifford Stoll Computer Copy Share Image
“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… — Clifford Stoll Addict Copy Share Image
“Computers deliver an abundance of symbols yet offer an impoverishment of experience. Do our children need to see more icons, corporate logos,… — Clifford Stoll Childhood Copy Share Image
Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? — Clifford Stoll Computers Copy Share Image
If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's… — Clifford Stoll Asks 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… — Clifford Stoll Accuracy Copy Share Image
It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony,… — Clifford Stoll Acrimony Copy Share Image
