"My work has taken me from historical research……" — Robert Darnton
"My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries."
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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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Digital data are more fragile than printed material.
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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 Electronic Quotes
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going…
— J. G. Ballard
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I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life…
— Beck
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A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen…
— Bill Bryson
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If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only…
— David Byrne
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The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and…
— Tony Campolo
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And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.
— Lois Capps
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The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of…
— Dick Cheney
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I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.
— Carlos Slim
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There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the…
— Unknown Author
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The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer.…
— Bjork
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If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern…
— Ernest K. Gann
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