Air Quote by Robert Darnton

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.

— Robert Darnton

In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a…

— Robert Darnton

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.…

— Robert Darnton

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the…

— Robert Darnton

“News in not what happened but a story about what happened.”

— Robert Darnton

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

— Robert Darnton

Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in…

— Robert Darnton

When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But…

— Robert Darnton

People think that when you use Google you're finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help.

— Robert Darnton

I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you…

— Robert Darnton

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…

— Robert Darnton

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