Clifford Stoll Quotes

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

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• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Day
  • Fall
  • Tree

• Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Humor
  • Pieces
  • Disregard

• I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Me
  • Drug
  • Dangerous

• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Player
  • Personality
  • Model

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Me
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
  • Company
  • Social
  • Convinced

• For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Live
  • Real
  • Heart

• I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Business
  • Parents

• I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Know

• Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Best

• I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Love
  • Power
  • City

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Passion
  • Christmas
  • White

• Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Words

• One thing remaining, infallible, would be Enough.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• One of the things I do well - I think, anyway - is combining different tones.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Different

• Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close 'What are you guys doing on this corner at 1 o'clock in the morning' policing. We need to be careful it doesn't drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences.

  

  James Comey
  • Up
  • Age
  • Strong

• American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • World
  • Power
  • American

• Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Power
  • Control

• When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

  

  Clifford Stoll
  • Alone