"Digital data are more fragile than printed material." — Robert Darnton
"Digital data are more fragile than printed material."
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Robert Darnton
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16 Quotes by Robert Darnton
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I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and…
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I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small…
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The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing…
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All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of…
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Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country,…
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We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
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I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting…
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As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the…
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As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I…
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My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard…
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While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it…
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I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the…
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More Data Quotes
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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in…
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
— Charles Babbage
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If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was…
— Michele Bachmann
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Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from…
— Roseanne Barr
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
— Roseanne Barr
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Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide…
— David Boies
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you…
— Edward de Bono
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
— Thomas Carlyle
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There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
— Vinton Cerf
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Merely presenting a driver's license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification.…
— Bob Dole
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The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952.
— Unknown Author
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