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"Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world."

Power

"If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody."

World

"While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language."

People

"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."

Friendship

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

Wisdom

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

Internet

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

Security

"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"

Computer

"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s."

Computer

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"I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter."

Bobby Sherman, American Musician

Computer, Learning

"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

Computer, Computers, Fact, Man

"While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed."

Timothy Murphy, American Soldier

Computer, Computers, Work, Support

"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."

Mitch Kapor, American Businessman

Computer, Computers, Father, Help, School

"After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many."

Glenn Turner, New Zealander Athlete

Computer, Newzealander

"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."

Mitch Kapor, American Businessman

Computer, Project, School

"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."

Seth Lloyd, American Educator

Computer, Universe

"Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020."

Ray Kurzweil, American Inventor

Computer, Computers, Will

"Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck."

Frederik Pohl, American Writer

Computer,

"I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette."

Frederik Pohl, American Writer

Computer, Now, Years