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

It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.

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

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

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

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

The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.