66 Quotes by Clifford Stoll

There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

What's society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together?

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