Ancient history Quote by S.E. Harmon

“When he introduced himself as Dewey, I said, “It’s an honor to meet you Mr. Decimalsystem.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Ah, the Dewey decimal system…humankind’s single greatest achievement.” From Candace Fleming’s The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School”

— Candace Fleming

“I walked around the library and the library smelled like every library I had ever been in and Dewey decimals were on all the…

— Catherine Lacey

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon…

— Libba Bray

“Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like…

— Brian Selznick

“The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The mark was from the glue that once held a folder into which a library card would have fitted back in the day when…

— Ben Aaronovitch

Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics…

— Jasper Fforde

“-You've got a . . . Lot of books, he said at last. -it's a sickness. -Are you . . . Seeing anyone for…

— Amor Towles

“Your reciept is your library card." -- On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.”

— Michael P. Naughton

“Knowledge equals power... The string was important. After a while the Librarian stopped. He concentrated all his powers of librarianship. Power equals energy... People…

— Terry Pratchett

“Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of…

— Megan Crane