Library Quotes

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You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an… — Clay Shirky
The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great… — Gary Wolf
Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a… — Gary Wolf
Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find… — Howard Rheingold
My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a… — Natascha McElhone
I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time. — Bitsie Tulloch
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development. — Alan Bennett
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. — Eric Idle
Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. — Terry Pratchett
When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our… — Jeff Kinney
I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other… — Camille Paglia
The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those… — Alison Gopnik
There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion… — Warren Farrell
I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go. — Jim Lee
I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging… — Alex Ebert
I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going… — Ed Stoppard
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… — Robert Darnton
I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library. — Eddie Trunk
I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions and time travel.… — Michio Kaku
The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter media for you,… — Ben Schott

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