Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

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.

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

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.

We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.

I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

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