Clifford Stoll Quotes

• “Im a scientist, once I do something, I want to do something else.”

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

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• “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.”

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• “The astronomer's rule of thumb:
  if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen”

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• “Of course. NSA is rumored to tape record every transatlantic telephone conversation. Maybe they’d recorded this session.”

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• “Cliff, I’d like to take over, but our charter prevents it. NSA can’t engage in domestic monitoring, even if we’re asked. That’s prison term stuff.”

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• “VI was predecessor to hundreds of word processing systems. By now, Unix folks see it as a bit stodgy—it hasn’t the versatility of Gnu-Emacs, nor the friendliness of more modern editors. Despite that, VI shows up on every Unix system.”

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• “Si realmente quieren saber sobre el futuro, no le pregunten a un técnico, a un científico o a un físico. ¡No! No le pregunten a quien escriba en código. No, si quieren saber cómo va a ser la sociedad en 20 años, pregúntenle a la maestra de un jardín de niños.”

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• “So what? Somebody’s always had control over information, and others have always tried to steal it. Read Machiavelli. As technology changes, sneakiness finds new expressions.” Martha”

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• “Η γνώση δεν είναι δύναμη. Ποιοι από τους ισχυρούς έχουν γνώση; Κανένας ισχυρός δεν ξοδεύει το χρόνο του στο Ίντερνετ και στις βιβλιοθήκες.
  Ποιοι έχουν τη γνώση; Οι βιβλιοθηκάριοι. Δεν υπάρχουν λιγότερο ισχυροί άνθρωποι από τους βιβλιοθηκάριους.”

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• “Over the past decade Stallman created a powerful editing program called Gnu-Emacs. But Gnu’s much more than just a text editor. It’s easy to customize to your personal preferences. It’s a foundation upon which other programs can be built. It even has its own mail facility built in. Naturally, our physicists demanded Gnu; with an eye to selling more computing cycles, we installed it happily.”

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• “The hacker didn't succeed through sophistication. Rather he poked at obvious places, trying to enter through unlock doors. Persistence, not wizardry, let him through.”

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• “Life was full: no hacker is worth missing a Dead concert for.”

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• “it’s a part of the Internet, a computer network that cross-links a hundred other networks.”

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• “Richard Stallman, a free-lance computer programmer, loudly proclaimed that information should be free.”

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• “[Martha said] “So what? Somebody's always had control over information, and others have always tried to steal it. Read Machiavelli. As technology changes, sneakiness finds new expressions.”

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• “Ich langte in meine Tasche nach einem Milky Way - was sonst für einen Astronomen - und machte es mir bequem, um den Hacker auf meinem grünen Monitor zu beobachten.”

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• “Not often—with six-letter passwords a hacker had a better chance of winning the lottery than randomly guessing a particular password. Since the computer hangs up after a few log-in failures, the attacker would need all night to try even a few hundred possible passwords. No, a hacker couldn’t magically enter my system. He’d need to know at least one password.”

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• “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.”

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