“The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.” WayGovernmentTeacherTruth IsComputerNewspapersOnlineCompetentCdsDatabasesGovernment Work Author:Clifford Stoll
“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.” ChildrenBookDreamValuesLinesResultsQualityInformationComfortableComputerLowsClaimsLibraryBudgetsSuspectsScholarAddictLibrarianHallucinationsInsidersAdeptAutomation Author:Clifford Stoll
“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.” MindUseHandsForceSkillsComputerCreatingEverydayDullEveryday Life Author:Clifford Stoll
“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.” SchoolStrongCreativityComputerLibraryWaveLiteracyReservationsUndercut Author:Clifford Stoll
“I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.” Computer Author:Clifford Stoll
“No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.” ComputerOur SocietySalespeople Author:Clifford Stoll
“Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?” DrugComputerAddictionUsersAddictDrug AddictionDrug Addict Author:Clifford Stoll
