Clifford Stoll Quotes

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

  Clifford Stoll

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Information

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

  Clifford Stoll

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Anybody

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

  Clifford Stoll

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Addiction, Called

• 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

  Topics in Family

  Tags in People, Important, Friends

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

  Clifford Stoll

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Room, Alone

• 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.

  Clifford Stoll

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nobody, Address

• Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

  Clifford Stoll

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Real, World

• 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.

  Clifford Stoll

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Admire, Different

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

  Clifford Stoll

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Addict

• Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

  Clifford Stoll

  Topics in Computer

• The Internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity.

  Clifford Stoll

  Topics in Technology

Clifford Stoll (11)

Birth:	4th June, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Astronomer, Author, Teacher

About

Clifford Paul "Cliff" Stoll was born in Buffalo, New York. He 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 his subsequent book, The Cuckoo's Egg, in which he details the investigation. He earned a B.S. in Astronomy in 1973 from the University at Buffalo and went on to receive his PhD from University of Arizona in 1980.

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