Clifford Stoll > Quotes

“Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? ”
― Clifford Stoll

“Im a scientist, once I do something, I want to do something else.”
― Clifford Stoll

“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.”
― Clifford Stoll

“The astronomer's rule of thumb:
if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen”
― Clifford Stoll

“Si realmente quieren saber sobre el futuro, no le pregunten a un técnico, a un científico o a un físico. ¡No! No le pregunten a quien escriba en código. No, si quieren saber cómo va a ser la sociedad en 20 años, pregúntenle a la maestra de un jardín de niños.”
― Clifford Stoll