If you don't have an e-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.

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

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

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.

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

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

Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.