Areas Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

— Sam Ewing

Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from…

— Larry McMurtry

I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.

— Robert Darnton

A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to…

— Kate Grenville

Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

— Carl Deuker

Computers don't kill books; people do.

— Douglas Rushkoff

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

— Garth Stein

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“We may need to put down the book from time to time, but we should make sure not to let the computer become the…

— Andrew Piper

“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously…

— Clifford Stoll

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

— Dwight Yoakam

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't…

— Nicholas Negroponte