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.

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.

An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.No. 75

That which triggers understanding often is found by bringing misunderstanding to the light.

Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.

Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.