Clifford Stoll Quotes

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Clifford Stoll

Profession : Author

Birth : June 4, 1950

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

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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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Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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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