{"id":385,"date":"2008-03-27T09:01:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T09:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/clifford-stoll-18-minutes-with-an-agile-mind\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T09:01:11","slug":"clifford-stoll-18-minutes-with-an-agile-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/clifford-stoll-18-minutes-with-an-agile-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an Agile mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" width=\"320\" height=\"285\" id=\"VE_Player\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted2\/flash\/loader.swf\"><PARAM NAME=\"FlashVars\" VALUE=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&#038;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/CLIFFORDSTOLL-2006_high.flv&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&#038;forcePlay=false&#038;logo=&#038;allowFullscreen=true\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted2\/flash\/loader.swf\" FlashVars=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&#038;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/CLIFFORDSTOLL-2006_high.flv&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&#038;forcePlay=false&#038;logo=&#038;allowFullscreen=true\" quality=\"high\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" scale=\"noscale\" wmode=\"window\" width=\"320\" height=\"285\" name=\"VE_Player\" align=\"middle\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the most energetic talks I&#8217;ve ever heard. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/view\/id\/213\">Clifford Stoll<\/a> is amazing! I&#8217;m not even going to try to explain what he talks about since he moves from one subject or interest to another so quickly it&#8217;s hard to keep up &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>\nStrangely listening to Clifford talk reminded me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alandix.com\/blog\/\">Alan<\/a>, I&#8217;ve often sat in lectures, or my living room, or in a restaurant listening to him and like Clifford he is a wonderful teacher, but it can be difficult to keep up with him, it&#8217;s an assault on the senses so many ideas often tangential come flooding out, and yet it&#8217;s impossible not to learn something, and often rather profound.\n<\/p>\n<p>Clifford ends his talk with this wonderful quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAll truth is one. In this light may science and religion endevour here for the steady evolution of mankind from darkness to light from narrowness to broadmindedness from prejudice to tolerance. It is the voice of life which calls us to come and learn.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the most energetic talks I&#8217;ve ever heard. Clifford Stoll is amazing! I&#8217;m not even going to try to explain what he talks about since he moves from one subject or interest to another so quickly it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/clifford-stoll-18-minutes-with-an-agile-mind\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[382,406,318],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal","tag-philosophy","tag-ted-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}