Clifford Stoll Quotes
For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information in your neighborhood? Librarians. And they're famous for having no power at all. And who has the most power in your community? Politicians. And they're notorious for being ill-informed.
Stoll, Clifford. High-Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian. Doubleday, 1999.
Different intelligence and law enforcement agencies would not share information except in very unusual circumstances. After 9-11, this failing of our government was to be fixed, and sharing improved somewhat, but not by much. Schlesinger’s observation was still true years after 9-11.
Clifford Paul "Cliff" Stoll is an American astronomer, author and teacher. He is best known for his investigation in 1986, while working as a systems administrator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, that led to the capture of hacker Markus Hess, and for Stoll's subsequent book The Cuckoo's Egg, in which he details the investigation.
