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.

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

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

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.

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

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

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

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

Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.

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

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

Who can stop influenza and tuberculosis? The wealth of high society cannot buy off this evil, for their bored children die alongside everyone else.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

...sometimes, you have to break your own heart.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.

I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.