Clifford Stoll Quotes

Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media - it's a false sense of intimacy and connection.

I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.

Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.

As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.

I've met very lonely people who have 10,000 friends on Facebook. And it's just not real. We've set up this artificial society in cyberspace. And that's supposed to be a community, like a real community. It's supposed to be where people go to get solace or friendship or have fun.

As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.

I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.

I'm dating my iPhone.

We live in such an isolating time with technology and social media and I think that creates this feeling of having to connect, of having so many ways to connect but nothing's connecting.

I wish I had a filter; then, I'd suspect, who knows? I'd perhaps have more friends.

You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.

I think if somebody doesn't have the time to work on a relationship, then they shouldn't get into it.

Email is a fundamental application.

If your loved ones are far away, and they're uploading pictures, you feel like that's enough: these loose strands through email, through social media, are going to supply this connection you have with that person. And I think that's keeping us isolated and lonely in a way that's very dangerous because we're unaware of it.

I have always been interested in how strange it is, when you date someone and break up, and then you both move on and continue your lives. What do you owe them, if anything, for that time intimate time spent together? What does that time mean, if anything?

Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

We're technology obsessed. I think it's easier to text than to actually say hi to someone.