Quote by Clifford Stoll Download Open image ““The astronomer's rule of thumb: if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen”” — Clifford Stoll ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“as astronomer Carl Sagan once aptly put it, you do not want to keep your mind so open that your brain is likely to… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being… — Benjamin Silliman Copy Share Image
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and… — William James Copy Share Image
The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“But I will confess that I began as an astronomer—a liking for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things, a hand stretched always toward the furthest limit— and… — Troy Jollimore 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
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
Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
