Impact Quote by Carla Hayden

Libraries are the future of reading.

— Courtney Milan

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

— Neil Gaiman

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

— Bill Gates

“the sooner we can accelerate the adoption of digital books, the better it will be for libraries and the more likely that some of…

— Jason Merkoski

“If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully exploiting the…

— James Billington

Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly…

— Jodi Rell

“I don’t think that the definition of library has changed. Libraries have never been repositories solely of books. In Alexandria for instance, the model…

— Alberto Manguel

“Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them with the…

— Barbara Fister

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

— Anonymous

As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of the smart…

— Neal Stephenson

Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain.

— E. Jean Carroll

“It is likely that libraries will carry on and survive, as long as we persist in lending words to the world that surrounds us,…

— Alberto Manguel