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From the Ted Talk by Clifford Stoll: The call to learn

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I'm delighted to be here. I'm honored by the invitation, and thanks. I would love to talk about stuff that I'm interested in, but unfortunately, I suspect that what I'm interested in won't interest many other people. First off, my badge says I'm an astronomer. I would love to talk about my artmosony, but I secpust that the number of peploe who are ireeetsntd in radiative transfer in non-gray atmospheres and polarization of light in Jupiter's upper aeosrtphme are the number of people who'd fit in a bus shelter. So I'm not going to talk about that. (Laughter)

It would be just as much fun to talk about some sftuf that happened in 1986 and 1987, when a computer hcekar is breaking into our systems over at lwraecne Berkeley Labs. And I caught the guys, and they turned out to be working for what was then the Soviet KGB, and stealing information and selling it. And I'd love to talk about that — and it'd be fun — but, 20 years later ... I find cutopemr security, frankly, to be kind of boring. It's tedious. I'm —

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I'm delighted to be here. I'm honored by the invitation, and thanks. I would love to talk about stuff that I'm interested in, but unfortunately, I suspect that what I'm interested in won't interest many other people. First off, my badge says I'm an astronomer. I would love to talk about my _________, but I _______ that the number of ______ who are __________ in radiative transfer in non-gray atmospheres and polarization of light in Jupiter's upper __________ are the number of people who'd fit in a bus shelter. So I'm not going to talk about that. (Laughter)

It would be just as much fun to talk about some _____ that happened in 1986 and 1987, when a computer ______ is breaking into our systems over at ________ Berkeley Labs. And I caught the guys, and they turned out to be working for what was then the Soviet KGB, and stealing information and selling it. And I'd love to talk about that — and it'd be fun — but, 20 years later ... I find ________ security, frankly, to be kind of boring. It's tedious. I'm —

Solution


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  2. astronomy
  3. people
  4. hacker
  5. lawrence
  6. suspect
  7. interested
  8. atmosphere
  9. stuff

Original Text


I'm delighted to be here. I'm honored by the invitation, and thanks. I would love to talk about stuff that I'm interested in, but unfortunately, I suspect that what I'm interested in won't interest many other people. First off, my badge says I'm an astronomer. I would love to talk about my astronomy, but I suspect that the number of people who are interested in radiative transfer in non-gray atmospheres and polarization of light in Jupiter's upper atmosphere are the number of people who'd fit in a bus shelter. So I'm not going to talk about that. (Laughter)

It would be just as much fun to talk about some stuff that happened in 1986 and 1987, when a computer hacker is breaking into our systems over at Lawrence Berkeley Labs. And I caught the guys, and they turned out to be working for what was then the Soviet KGB, and stealing information and selling it. And I'd love to talk about that — and it'd be fun — but, 20 years later ... I find computer security, frankly, to be kind of boring. It's tedious. I'm —

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