Clifford Stoll Quotes

United States, Astronomer
June 4, 1950

Clifford Paul "Cliff" Stoll (born June 4, 1950) is 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.

Also known as Author, Teacher

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

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- Why
- Drug
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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- World

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

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Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Clifford Stoll
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.

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

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- Alone
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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- People
- World
- Different
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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- World
- Real
- Power

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Clifford Stoll
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Clifford Stoll