Quote by Nicholas Carr

Before the internet, big publications were like hydrants in the desert. There were relatively few of them, we needed each one of them tremendously…

— Henry Blodget

“Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and up amusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just…

— Benjamin Hoff

“Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.”

— Martin Edwards

“Simply put, we have more people talking about news and less original reporting. Whether on television or online, there is no shortage of analysis.…

— Dan Rather

“With access to everything, we can dabble without really knowing. I am not bemoaning a diminishing awareness of references, but it’s easier than ever…

— Carrie Brownstein

“It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy.”

— Alexandra Johnson

The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles…

— Nick Bostrom

“A journal is a record of experiences and growth, not a preserve of things well done or said.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.”

— Eugène Delacroix

I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more of journal…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

— Derek Bok

“documents, newspapers, blogs, magazines, and active content,”

— Amazon