The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us.
Clifford StollAnyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.
Clifford StollThe information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.
Clifford Stoll