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Clifford Paul "Cliff" Stoll (born June 4, 1950) is an American astronomer, author and teacher. He is best known for his investigation in 1986, while working as a systems administrator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, that led to the capture of hacker Markus Hess, and for Stoll's subsequent book The Cuckoo's Egg, in which he details the investigation.

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It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.

Acrimony, Flames, Hobbies, Insults

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, Creating, Everyday, Hands, Life, Skills

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

Gotten, Internet, Internet Users, System, Technology, Telephones

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, Nobody, Page, Pages, World

As the networks evolve, so do my opinions toward them, and my divergent feelings bring out conflicting points of view. In advance, I apologize to those who expect a consistent position from me.

Advance, Divergent, Evolve, Feelings, View, Views

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, Meaning, School, Schools, Strong, Undercut

Data isn't information. . . . Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom.

Data, Gulf, Ideas, Inspiration, Lying, Ocean

The virtual community? The word virtual does not mean "virtue. " It means "not. " When I go to the store and they say: The shirt that you brought in is virtually done. It means it is not done, in the same way that the virtual community is not a community. There is no commitment there. When you log off, you are not a member of it anymore. My flesh and blood community, the sense of knowing my neighbor, knowing the guy across the street, having dinner with the people down the block, getting along with each other and making compromises, that's a genuine community with a commitment.

Block, Commitment, Having, Mean, Say, Way

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

Alone, Keyboard, Keyboards, Rays, Room, Rooms

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

Close, Communication, Illusory, Leads, Science, Technology

Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.

Amount, Inspired, Power, Science, Think, Thinking

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.

Cold, Different, Feelings, Insights, People

I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is.

Community, Internet, People, Real, Wonder

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.

Locations, Needs, Organization, Programs, Search, Smart

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.

Book, Page, Pages, Peruse, Real, Work

A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.

Big, Crayon, Kids, Paper, Programs

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

1990S, Classroom, Classrooms, Computer, Computers, Filmstrips

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

Doors, Empty Rooms, Lead, Opens, Perfect, Rooms

We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.

Book, Books, Buy, Newspapers, People, Stupid

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.

Data, Editors, Information, Pedigree, Quality, Spent

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