Clifford Stoll Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

  Clifford Stoll

  Addiction, Drug, Computer

• 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.

  Clifford Stoll

  Strong, Creativity, School

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

  Clifford Stoll

  Computer

  "Cliff Stoll: Cyber-Skeptic (The Civilization of Cyberspace #3)". Interview with John Gerstner, www.johngerstner.com.

• No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

  Clifford Stoll

  Our Society, Computer, Salespeople

• Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

  Clifford Stoll

  Computer, Classroom

• The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

  Clifford Stoll

  Teacher, Government, Cds

  "The 5 Stages of Social Media Grief" by Brett King, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2010.

• 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

  Dream, Children, 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.

  Clifford Stoll

  Hands, Skills, Creating

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