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> [About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed to know. Much more time went into finding or obtaining information than into digesting it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-r-licklider/about-85-per-cent-of-my-thinking-time-was-spent-getting-into-a/)

[J. C. R. Licklider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-r-licklider/)

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## More by J. C. R. Licklider

> [The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-r-licklider/the-hope-is-that-in-not-too-many-years-human-brains-and-computing/)

[J. C. R. Licklider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-r-licklider/)

> [In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-r-licklider/in-a-few-years-men-will-be-able-to-communicate-more-effectively/)

[J. C. R. Licklider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-r-licklider/)

> [It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-r-licklider/it-seems-reasonable-to-envision-for-a-time-10-or-15-years-hence-a/)

[J. C. R. Licklider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-r-licklider/)

> [My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-r-licklider/my-thinking-time-was-devoted-mainly-to-activities-that-were/)

[J. C. R. Licklider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-r-licklider/)

> [Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-r-licklider/men-are-noisy-narrow-band-devices-but-their-nervous-systems-have-very/)

[J. C. R. Licklider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-r-licklider/)

> [We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-r-licklider/we-need-to-substitute-for-the-book-a-device-that-will-make-it-easy-to/)

[J. C. R. Licklider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-r-licklider/)

> [A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-r-licklider/a-multidisciplinary-study-group-estimated-that-it-would-be-1980/)

[J. C. R. Licklider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-r-licklider/)

> [My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-r-licklider/my-thinking-time-was-devoted-mainly-to-activities-that-were-2/)

[J. C. R. Licklider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-r-licklider/)

> [One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-r-licklider/one-must-be-prepared-to-reject-not-only-the-schema-of-the-physical/)

[J. C. R. Licklider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-r-licklider/)

> [About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-r-licklider/about-85-per-cent-of-my-thinking-time-was-spent-getting-into-a/)

[J. C. R. Licklider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-r-licklider/)

> [In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-r-licklider/in-a-few-years-men-will-be-able-to-communicate-more-effectively-2/)

[J. C. R. Licklider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-r-licklider/)

> [It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-r-licklider/it-should-be-possible-in-a-debreviation-mode-to-type-clr-on-the/)

[J. C. R. Licklider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-r-licklider/)

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