Quotes by Clifford Stoll

Clifford Stoll

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.

Cacophony

Doe

Messages

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.

Creating

Hands

Skills

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Classroom

Computer

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

Knowledge

Learning

Wisdom

Data isn’t information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

Data

Fifty

Library

Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.

Creativity

School

Strong

I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders…Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They’ll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won’t be a library without books–it’ll be a library without value.

Book

Children

Dream

I spend almost as much time figuring out what’s wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

Computer

If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

Civilization

House

Way

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.

Addresses

Pages

World

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Acrimony

Addiction

Addresses

Book

Cacophony

Cds

Children

Civilization

Classroom

Community

Computer

Creating

Creativity

Data

Differences

Different

Doe

Dream

Drug

Engineering

Feelings

Fifty

Firsts

Flames

Friends

Funny

Giving

Government

Hands

Hobbies

House

Information

Knowledge

Learning

Library

Meaningful

Messages

Our Society

Pages

People

Real

Salespeople

Savvy

School

Skills

Strong

Stupid

Teacher

Technology

Two

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Quotes by Clifford Stoll

Clifford Stoll

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.

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.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

Data isn’t information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.

I spend almost as much time figuring out what’s wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

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.

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