Quotes About Stoll

#1. I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way.
...
"What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me.

Rick Riordan

#2. Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?

William K. Wimsatt

#3. I wondered how Setne knew that. Maybe he could 'smell' a demigod's aura the way Greek monsters could. Or maybe my prankster friends the Stoll brothers had written I'M A DEMIGOD on my forehead in permanent marker and Annabeth had decided not to tell me. That happened occasionally.

Rick Riordan

#4. If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.

Clifford Stoll

#5. I'm looking for uncommon people.

Cal Stoll

#6. Their dad was the god of thieves, but they were about a stealthy as water buffalos.

Rick Riordan

#7. While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

Clifford Stoll

#8. The only real purpose of time is to escort humanity in and out of this mortal coil in an orderly fashion.

Charles Stoll

#9. Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Clifford Stoll

#10. I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is.

Clifford Stoll

#11. Im a scientist, once I do something, I want to do something else.

Clifford Stoll

#12. Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.

Clifford Stoll

#13. It's funny; I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

Corey Stoll

#14. The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning ... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.

Clifford Stoll

#15. It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place.

Clifford Stoll

#16. Certain media attracts more pulpy or low-brow things, especially when they're young. Finding the best story, in any particular medium, is going to be as good, in any other medium.

Corey Stoll

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

Clifford Stoll

#18. I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

Clifford Stoll

#19. Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.

Cal Stoll

#20. I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.

Corey Stoll

#21. In summing up Lawrence's earlier novels and in anticipating the later, Sons and Lovers is of central importance to the whole Lawrence canon because it contains the psychological basis of much of the later doctrine.

John E. Stoll

#22. It's sort of cliche, but when you're playing drunk, your character is trying to appear sober.

Corey Stoll

#23. What's society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together?

Clifford Stoll

#24. Of course. NSA is rumored to tape record every transatlantic telephone conversation. Maybe they'd recorded this session.

Clifford Stoll

#25. VI was predecessor to hundreds of word processing systems. By now, Unix folks see it as a bit stodgy - it hasn't the versatility of Gnu-Emacs, nor the friendliness of more modern editors. Despite that, VI shows up on every Unix system.

Clifford Stoll

#26. As a final argument that Catholicism and statism are contradictory, Kennedy added, "A Catholic's dual allegiance to the Kingdom of God on the one hand prohibits unquestioning obedience on the other to the state as an organic unit.

Ira Stoll

#27. Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

Clifford Stoll

#28. I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.

Corey Stoll

#29. I really feel incredibly fortunate to not be stereotyped. And it's something that I and my representatives are very keen on preserving.

Corey Stoll

#30. Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"

Corey Stoll

#31. Books are written to take you places planes could never reach, so let your imagination soar.

R.L. Stoll

#32. Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

Clifford Stoll

#33. No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

Clifford Stoll

#34. When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

Clifford Stoll

#35. There's a ton of stories that can come out of L.A. I actually think that even though I enjoy being in New York more, I think that L.A. is a really fascinating place.

Corey Stoll

#36. The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data ... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree ... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.

Clifford Stoll

#37. The thing is that, often if you have time to research a role, sometimes it's hard to know exactly where to start.

Corey Stoll

#38. The weirdest thing about Tibet is that the most popular beer is Pabst Blue Ribbon. Everywhere, even on the slopes of Everest, cans of Pabst lay alongside the road labeled, 'Established in Milwaukee in 1849'.

Scott Stoll

#39. If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.

Clifford Stoll

#40. The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us.

Clifford Stoll

#41. I don't know how to play myself. I'm not interested enough in myself. That's just not how I was educated. That's not how I learned to become an actor. Acting is creating a character.

Corey Stoll

#42. I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always the potential to self sabotage.

Corey Stoll

#43. Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

Clifford Stoll

#44. People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

Corey Stoll

#45. Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

Clifford Stoll

#46. Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

Clifford Stoll

#47. Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

Corey Stoll

#48. Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Clifford Stoll

#49. It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.

Clifford Stoll

#50. Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.

Clifford Stoll

#51. I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.

Corey Stoll

#52. The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

Clifford Stoll

#53. Lawrence's claims for the vital self and his inability to make it
convincing independently of Freudian psychology are serious flaws in the novel, explain the sense in which the author's vision exceeds his grasp, and bring the cleavage between intention and performance into clear perspective.

John E. Stoll

#54. Just when you think you're ready to type THE END, you go back and change something you didn't like ... Repeat ...

R.L. Stoll

#55. We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.

Clifford Stoll

#56. In terms of my free time, I really don't have much. The time I do have, I enjoy being domestic and spending time with my girlfriend, hiking and playing tennis.

Corey Stoll

#57. The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

Clifford Stoll

#58. My Characters Tell ME Where THEY Want to Go.

R.L. Stoll

#59. The astronomer's rule of thumb:
if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen

Clifford Stoll

#60. We finally got Nebraska where we want them ... off the schedule.

Cal Stoll

#61. I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

Corey Stoll

#62. Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.

Corey Stoll

#63. Cliff, I'd like to take over, but our charter prevents it. NSA can't engage in domestic monitoring, even if we're asked. That's prison term stuff.

Clifford Stoll

#64. So what? Somebody's always had control over information, and others have always tried to steal it. Read Machiavelli. As technology changes, sneakiness finds new expressions." Martha

Clifford Stoll

#65. Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Clifford Stoll

#66. I can walk down the street and nobody knows who I am.

Corey Stoll

#67. If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

Clifford Stoll

#68. In the context of Lawrence's rejection of the Freudian notion of incest and the close identification between author and character, Sons and Lovers becomes an exercise in deliberate ambiguity.

John E. Stoll