Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.

The virtual community? The word virtual does not mean "virtue." It means "not." When I go to the store and they say: The shirt that you brought in is virtually done. It means it is not done, in the same way that the virtual community is not a community. There is no commitment there. When you log off, you are not a member of it anymore. My flesh and blood community, the sense of knowing my neighbor, knowing the guy across the street, having dinner with the people down the block, getting along with each other and making compromises, that's a genuine community with a commitment.

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

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

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

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place.