Clifford Stoll

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. ”

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. ”

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

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community. ”

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