Clifford Stoll

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

— Clifford Stoll

#data #information #knowledge #understanding #wisdom

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

— Clifford Stoll

#anybody #else #every #get #like

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

— Clifford Stoll

#called #computer #users #why

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

— Clifford Stoll

#gotten #internet #system #telephone

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

— Clifford Stoll

#classrooms

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

#e-mail #nobody #own #page #web

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

#does #give #give me #i #me

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

#closer #community #family #friends #i

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

— Clifford Stoll

#i #keyboard #online #room #staring

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

#cold #computing #different #different language #feeling