Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other read more

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.

It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.

Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

A satellite has no conscience.

A satellite has no conscience.

Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order read more

Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That's as if a 747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the price of a large pizza.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours read more

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.