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

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

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.

Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom.

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

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

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