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

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.

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.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

I was sweating like Christy Moore at a Feis Ceol, so badly, in fact, I looked like I was sporting a finger moustache as I attempted to rescue suicidal perspiration drops from my upper lip. Classy.

It's so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that's the worst in your life, but to everybody else it's just an ordinary night.

Be it tart or sweet, always savor the moment. You'll not taste one just like it again.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.