Clifford Stoll Quotes

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.

We're living in a society where there's a cacophony of noise and opinion.

There's always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that's the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can't cure it.

I love Twitter, but some people use profanity so much that at some point it's like saying, 'Pass the salt.'

Twitter's a funny one. I mean, it's good in some respects, but I can't stand it in other respects. You know there are too many opinions, people get opinions mixed up, and people get being rude mixed up with 'that's my opinion.'

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.

What the Internet's value is that you have access to information but you also have access to every lunatic that's out there that wants to throw up a blog.

Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

I don't control what people say. I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else.

There's just a proliferation of blogs and the chattering classes and people talking. More avenues for people to make their feelings known, which is good.

I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

Every morning as I begin my work day, my computer presents me with the usual array of garbage: email, Twitter, updates on the state of the nation, updates on the state of the sneakers I just ordered.

People feel emboldened to say things on the Internet they wouldn't in person.

With the Internet I just love how anything goes, especially in the light of this whole Sachsgate.

When you're indiscriminate in allowing people to post, the loudest and emptiest voices invariably drown out everyone else.

I don't appreciate many of the things that are said on social media.

We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.

The Internet and Twitter and all these things are very powerful, but it also means sometimes that instead of having a dialogue we just start calling folks - calling each other names. And that's true on the left or the right.

To me, Twitter seems like a way for people to just let the world know about the most mundane bullshit that crosses their mind.

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.

Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head .

In the age of the internet, with all of its problems, over time, the very fact that individuals can join the conversation creates the opportunity for the emergence of - for the re-emergence of a genuine conversation of democracy.