Robert Darnton Quotes

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• I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
• I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are…
• The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.
• All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the…
• Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the…
• We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
• I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.
• As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I…
• As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved…
• Digital data are more fragile than printed material.
• My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.
• While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding…
• I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.
• We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that…
• It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have…
• Texts are always in flux.

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