[argklm]

Sometimes a mentor is not someone that you will meet in person... The entire Internet is my mentor. This site has taught me more things that I can number. Choose a good list of sites and invest your time in high open source quality software. If you will turn out to be one of the best programmers, you will discover that most of the work you had done, will be the work that you did alone. If you emulate others you will be only a robot. The highest point will be the one when you will turn around and you will see the mountains you built alone...

[sharpercoder]

Getting the wisdom is not the problem - getting the right wisdom in the right dose at the right time, is. That's what a mentor is for. The internet does not provide this.

[31reasons]

Mentors are not just for knowledge, they provide connections, confidence and motivation based on what they know about you. The internet has lot of knowledge but it doesn't know you deep enough to tell you what is good for you.