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
firsts apologizing easier
It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place.
computer
I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.
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 classroom
Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.
technology telephones internet-users
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
lying inspiration ocean
Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom.
stupid book people
We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.
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.
data editors quality
The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.
data information fifty
Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.
addiction drug computer
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?
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.
meaningful use months
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
knowledge data understanding
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.