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

No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

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.

There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it.

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

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.

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.