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.

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.

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

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

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

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

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.