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
Clifford Stoll quotes about
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.
addiction drug computer
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?
technology telephones internet-users
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
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.
empty-rooms doors perfect
The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.
information-is-power years community
For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information in your neighborhood? Librarians. And they're famous for having no power at all. And who has the most power in your community? Politicians. And they're notorious for being ill-informed.
real people community
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.
technology two yellow
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.
keyboards rooms rays
When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.
cacophony messages serious
Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.
views feelings divergent
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.
real book pages
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.
strong school creativity
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.