The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.

The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.

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.

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.

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

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.