The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.
Clifford StollWhen I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.
Clifford StollI 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.
Clifford StollWhile 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.
Clifford Stoll