66 Quotes by Clifford Stoll

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

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.

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.

It’s easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place.

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

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.

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.

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.

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