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
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.
communication science technology
Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.
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.
differences information savvy
There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it.
world addresses pages
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.
keyboards rooms rays
When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.
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.
kids paper crayon
A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.
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.
skills creating hands
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.
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.