It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. — Robert Darnton Central Copy Share Image
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type… — Robert Darnton Ambitious Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of… — Robert Darnton About Copy Share Image
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced… — Robert Darnton Back Copy Share Image
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton Arrived Copy Share Image
Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to… — Robert Darnton Citizen Copy Share Image
When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high… — Robert Darnton Because Copy Share Image
People think that when you use Google you're finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help. — Robert Darnton Exactly Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center… — Robert Darnton Center Copy Share Image
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it,… — Robert Darnton American Copy Share Image
I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of… — Robert Darnton Book Copy Share Image
“By seeing the way a joke worked in the horseplay of a printing shop two centuries ago, we may be able to… — Robert Darnton Humor Copy Share Image
The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that… — Robert Darnton Air Copy Share Image
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st. — Robert Darnton 18th century Copy Share Image
We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace. — Robert Darnton Cyberspace Copy Share Image
The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We… — Robert Darnton American Copy Share Image
We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again… — Robert Darnton Again Copy Share Image
All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a… — Robert Darnton America Copy Share Image
It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through… — Robert Darnton Available Copy Share Image
People sometimes announce that we have entered 'the information age' as if information did not exist in other times. I think that… — Robert Darnton According Copy Share Image
I want to continue to strengthen Harvard's fabulous collections in old printed material, but at the same time, I want to help… — Robert Darnton Collections Copy Share Image
“The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both… — Robert Darnton Brutal Copy Share Image
