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.

We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.

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

I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is.

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

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

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.