Clifford Stoll

“Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.”

“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.”