Clifford Stoll: The call to learn

http://www.ted.com Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he's not going to. Which is fine, because it would be criminal to confine a man with interests as multifarious as Stoll's to give a talk on any one topic. Instead, he simply captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he's a scientist: "Once I do something, I want to do something else."

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[klauspeh]

HE DRIVES A DELOREAN...

[Alan VenueVideo]

It's such attitudes which drain the energy from minds like this and makes us dull. It's a shame society has an ideal of what is acceptable for a person to be like, this is why us full of energy despair at society at times and probably why we are not as advanced as we could be.

[Tsvetan Tsvetkov]

Why would you assume he is very smart and gifted when you skipped through it? YOU are passing your restless diffused energy on us making us anxious that you exist in the very same world we do.

[chiaroscural]

get off my planet

[h0norebel]

i didnt know this guy and thought he was just being ridiculous. but after i watched the video i realized this man is a genius. god bless him

[Josh Stamps]

This guy wow!

[jon t]

an actor? no, he's a genius and through experience he's figured out ways to keep people entertained, ensuring his message gets across. actors read scripts someone else wrote and occasionally dust an already finished cake with their ad libbed sprinkles.

[Mattan Yeroushalmi]

He is Manic

[Caitie Hanahan]

dykes? Nice word choice. Maybe it's just people like you, fostering negative energy, that are turning beautiful ideas into opportunities for dominance.

[Tawanda Shonhiwa]

put a smile on my face,thank you.

[Sergiu Mucea]

He's a scientist. He's like Einstein, a little bit crazy, that's the beauty of it. I'm pretty sure that he is not stoned.