Clifford Stoll Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Our Society, Computer, Salespeople

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

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  Firsts, Apologizing, Easier

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• 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.

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  Flames, Hobbies, Acrimony

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• 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.

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  Strong, Creativity, School

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• 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.

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  Real, Book, Pages

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• 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.

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  World, Addresses, Pages

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• 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.

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  Smart, Organization, Needs

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• 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.

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  People, Feelings, Different

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Government, Cds

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

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• Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

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  Real, Giving, Doe

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

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  Rays, Keyboards, Rooms

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• 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.

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  Real, People, Community

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• 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.

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  Views, Feelings, Divergent

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

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  Kids, Paper, Crayon

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