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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.