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“My guess is about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in doing [re]search..."
Craig Silverstein, Google director of technology, on CBS Sunday Morning, 3/28/04'Libraries are not really about books or information. They are about connecting students to ideas - often against their will.'
'Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.'
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life (Henry Ward Beecher)
Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container.
Computers in libraries are like the icing on the cake - they add to the whole experience, but just make a sticky mess on their own.
"I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book." (Groucho Marx)
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. (Elizabeth Hardwicke)
· "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. ......Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read."
· If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~Cicero
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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. (Elizabeth Hardwicke)
· I have always imagined Paradise will be a kind of library - Jorge Borges
· In the non-stop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties to teach us how to swim – Linton Weekes
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks and information literacy is the ATM
· Library: The medicine chest of the soul.
· A man's library is a sort of harem. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson,
· Librarian is a service occupation - gas station attendant of the mind. ~Richard Powers
· Nutrimentum spiritus (food for the soul). ~Berlin Royal Library, inscription
· Book lovers never go to bed alone
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· I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books. Ann Richards, former Governor of Texas
· For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. Columnist Pete Hamill, New York Daily News
· A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. Author Norman Cousins
· Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. Broadcaster Walter Cronkite
· A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. Martin Tupper
· I’d rather be reading.
· My library has something to offend everybody. (Go look!)
· What can I say? Librarians rule. - Regis Philbin
· The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is? - Nancy Pearl
· My library I s well stacked.
· A room without books is like a body without a soul. – Cicero
· If truth is beauty, how come no-one has their hair done in the library? Lily Tomlin
· "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
.......Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read."
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you
can do." -- John Wooden