Clifford Stoll Quotes

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

- Clifford Stoll

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

- Clifford Stoll

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

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

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

- Clifford Stoll

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

- Clifford Stoll

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

- Clifford Stoll

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

- Clifford Stoll

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

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

- Clifford Stoll