Clifford Stoll
Clifford Stoll
Clifford Paul "Cliff" Stollis an American astronomer, author and teacher. He is best known for his investigation in 1986, while working as a systems administrator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, that led to the capture of hacker Markus Hess, and for Stoll's subsequent book, The Cuckoo's Egg, in which he details the investigation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 June 1950
CountryUnited States of America
across family far human
Human kindness, warmth, interaction, friendship, and family are far more important than anything that can come across my cathode-ray tube.
knowledge data understanding
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
meaningful use months
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
teacher writing years
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.
addiction drug computer
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?
engineering want firsts
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.
technology telephones internet-users
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
block mean commitment
The virtual community? The word virtual does not mean "virtue." It means "not." When I go to the store and they say: The shirt that you brought in is virtually done. It means it is not done, in the same way that the virtual community is not a community. There is no commitment there. When you log off, you are not a member of it anymore. My flesh and blood community, the sense of knowing my neighbor, knowing the guy across the street, having dinner with the people down the block, getting along with each other and making compromises, that's a genuine community with a commitment.
computer
I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.
kids technology together
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?
thinking data ideas
Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.
teacher cds government
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.
dream children book
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.
friends people community
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.