Internet use would only be a worry if it was getting in the way of us practicing some other life skill.

– Tom Stafford, in his BBC Future column discussing if the internet rewires our brain

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail.

– Stephen Hawking, interviewed in The Guardian, There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story

At any given moment, our most complicated machine will be taken as a model of human intelligence

– Adam Gopnik explains, in The New Yorker, How the Internet Gets Inside Us