Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
If you really want to know about the future, don’t ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don’t ask somebody who’s writing code. No, if you want to know what society’s going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?
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, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.
The Internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity.
We’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.
I spend almost as much time figuring out what’s wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.
It’s easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place.
What’s society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together?
Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.
Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.
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.
Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.
A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.
Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.
There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it.
Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.