(13 quotes found)
“Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?”
Clifford Stoll
“The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.”
“Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.”
“Human kindness, warmth, interaction, friendship, and family are far more important than anything that can come across my cathode-ray tube.”
“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.”
“When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.”
“The problem with intelligent agents and filters is that they can never do anything more than a crude approximation of my desires and wants.”
