Quotes by Clifford Stoll

“The Internet is a telephone system thats gotten uppity.”

“Treat your password like your toothbrush. Dont let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.”

“Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?”

“Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and youre no longer hungry, but you havent been nourished.”

“If you dont have an E-mail address, youre in the Netherworld. If you dont have your own World Wide Web page, youre a nobody.”

“Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.”

“Human kindness, warmth, interaction, friendship, and family are far more important than anything that can come across my cathode-ray tube.”

“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.”

“When Im online, Im alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.”

“The problem with intelligent agents and filters is that they can never do anything more than a crude approximation of my desires and wants.”

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Dont let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

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.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

The Internet is a telephone system thats gotten uppity.