Addict Quote by Clifford Stoll

““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 are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.””

Clifford Stoll

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“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, nor the friendliness of more modern editors. Despite that, VI shows up on every Unix system.”

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It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place.

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Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

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Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

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There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it.

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No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

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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.

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“The astronomer's rule of thumb: if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen”

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We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.

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“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 customize to your personal preferences. It’s a foundation upon which other programs can be built. It even has its own mail facility built in. Naturally, our physicists demanded Gnu; with an eye to selling more computing…

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