Clifford Stoll Quotes

It's easy to look at kids sitting around a campfire looking at their phones and to think, 'What a shame.' But I think they're going to be more advanced in terms of communication than my generation.

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.

A lot of people don't know how to talk on the phone anymore.

There's no more fun. All that digital stuff - we used to do that crap for real! I hate that stuff. Young kids who play video games seem to like it, but I don't.

I think hearing kids my age miss out on genuine connections already because they text so much, and then they feel awkward when they are face to face with someone.

I think kids are fairly similar. It's just really the technology. Like, you won't find kids in the 60s, or anyone for that matter, having mobile phones, texting, watching YouTube, and being absorbed in their technology.

The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

Watch people and how they handle other people. You have to stay open and keep your eyes open to them.

Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital natives, for instance, are people who grew up in a world that always had the Internet and who always had smartphones. Millennials aren't too far behind: my generation of people, who were in the mix of the Internet when it first came out.

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

Reading about what a digital native thinks of the Internet is like reading about what it's like to blink: it's kind of boring.

I could live without my phone. And one thing I'd love to do is experience having the freedom that kids had back in the '80s.

The iPad is becoming the babysitter… Silicon Valley programs these things to be addictive.

I think there's sort of an extra oomph with the younger people coming up. They're writing. They're communicating. They're sharing, and they are very much technology-driven.

In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.

I see some kids whose social media is their whole world, and I actually think it's good to disconnect from that.

From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.

I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen.

I've always gotten along pretty well with people.

My agenda... is to learn about people.

I get along with people quickly.

Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older boys don't read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on Kindles or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds.

I really like connecting with kids.