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“Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.”

Quote by Clifford Stoll

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Clifford Stoll
Clifford Stoll

Clifford Stoll is an American author known for his works on computer security and personal privacy. His writings often explore the impact of technology on society and the role of individuals in technological advancement. more

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“Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.”

“Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.”