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If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Clifford Stoll
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Clifford Stoll
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 4
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Clifford Paul Stoll
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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.
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A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.
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We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.
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I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.
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Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us.
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Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.
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The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.
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The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.
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Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.
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Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
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There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it.
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No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.
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It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place.
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Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
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