Clifford Stoll

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.”

“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.”