Quote by Clifford Stoll (b. 1950)

• Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.