Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

—Clifford Stoll

About Clifford Stoll

Portrait of Clifford Stoll

Clifford Paul "Cliff" Stoll (born June 4, 1950) is an American astronomer, author and teacher.

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