 Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom.
Spafford
I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. There are millions of others. I know this, because I encounter them on the Internet, which is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean 'people without lives.
Dave Barry
It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, `Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.
Ronald Graham
Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.
Dennis Miller
The Internet is like a living window into human consciousness and perhaps even to the divine... if we can attune to it... we might well contribute to a glittering awakening on a cosmic level. We can be on-line with ourselves and the world all the time!
John Osborne
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.
Douglas Adams
Spafford his well-known for his aphorisms regarding the Internet:
(Generally, the word "Usenet" may be replaced by the word "Internet" or the phrase "World Wide Web" and these axioms will remain as true as the original statements.)
Axiom 1: "The Usenet is not the real world. The Usenet usually does not even resemble the real world."
Corollary 1: "Attempts to change the real World by altering the structure of the Usenet is an attempt to work sympathetic magic -- electronic voodoo."
Corollary 2: "Arguing about the significance of newsgroup names and their relation to the way people really think is equivalent to arguing whether it is better to read tea leaves or chicken entrails to divine the future."
Axiom 2: "Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense."
Corollary 3: "An infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards could produce something like Usenet."
Corollary 4: "They could do a better job of it."
Axiom 3: "Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap) applies to Usenet."
Corollary 5: "In an unmoderated newsgroup, no one can agree on what constitutes the 10%."
Corollary 6: "Nothing guarantees that the 10% isn't crap, too."
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards - and even then I have my doubts."
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