Quotes from Clifford Stoll

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.

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

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.

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

What's society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.

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.

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

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

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

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

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos... two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

Fifty years ago I knew the names of everyone who lived in my street. Now, in this age of information, I know the names of hardly anybody who lives in my street.

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