Mike Royko Quotes

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.

[The Internet,] A Superhighway through the Wasteland?

The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.

Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

When people say that the Internet is going to make us all geniuses, that was said about the telegraph. On the other hand, when they say the Internet is going to make us stupid, that also was said about the telegraph.

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

Computers make me totally blank out.

I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can't do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.

The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.

The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

I tend not to read reviews; there's too much out there in cyberspace.

The internet is an unforgiving place for yesterday's great idea.

We think that computer models represent reality especially if we developed the models.

The Future Belongs to Those Who are Fast

People barely have anything to say in 140 characters. The last thing we need is a bunch of discursive rambling on Twitter.