Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

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.

If you don't have an e-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.

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

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

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.