Clifford Stoll famous quotes

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Knowledge #Data #Understanding

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

#Meaningful #Use #Months

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?
-- Clifford Stoll

#Addiction #Drug #Computer

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Technology #Telephones #Internet

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.
-- Clifford Stoll

#People #Feelings #World

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.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Friends #People #Community

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

#World #Addresses #Pages

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

#Data #Fifty #Information

What's society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together?
-- Clifford Stoll

#Kids #Technology #Together

As the networks evolve, so do my opinions toward them, and my divergent feelings bring out conflicting points of view. In advance, I apologize to those who expect a consistent position from me.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Views #Feelings #Divergent

Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Real #Book #Pages

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Creating #Hands #Skills

Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Strong #Creativity #School

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 you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Technology #Two #Yellow

I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Real #People #Community

I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Computer

It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Flames #Degenerates #Hobbies

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

#Our Society #Computer #Salespeople

The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Smart #Organization #Location

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Doe #Cacophony #Messages

A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Kids #Paper #Paint

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

#Dream #Children #Book

Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Thinking #Data #Ideas

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Rays #Keyboards #Rooms

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Computer #Classroom

Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Lying #Ocean #Inspiration

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Engineering #Want #Firsts

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

#Stupid #Book #People

All truth is one. In this light, may science and religion endeavor here for the steady evolution of mankind, from darkness to light, from narrowness to broad-mindedness, from prejudice to tolerance. It is the voice of life, which calls us to come and learn.
-- Clifford Stoll

#God #Voice #Light

Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Communication #Science #Technology

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 network will change the way government works.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Teacher #Government #Cds

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 writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Teacher #Writing #Years