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

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

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

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

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.

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.

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.