Digital Libraries Quotes

#1. We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

Marilyn Johnson

#2. What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated.

Michael E. Gorman

#3. What anger wants, it buys at the price of soul.

Dana Marton

#4. I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to digital information, but also to things that are live and dynamic and organic in some way.

Ken Goldberg

#5. Many of the people libraries serve today are ill equipped to take advantage of all the great things about the digital present and future. Since libraries must be guided by those they serve, they will be awkwardly straddling the analog and the digital for some period of time.

John Palfrey

#6. Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Jonathan Zittrain

#7. I sighed. "Would it be too much to ask that Asgard be peaceful? Made up of big, fluffy clouds, serenity, and lots of hot yoga?

Amanda Carlson

#8. Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.

Tamora Pierce

#9. The type of librarians who are thriving most consistently in the digital era are those who have found a way to operate as a node in a network of libraries and librarians. They are agents of change, actively creating the future instead of constantly reacting to it -

John Palfrey

#10. Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can't believe, I can't accept that you die and that's the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there's something about the mind that's more than that.

Terence Fisher

#11. So are you lonely, or just a loner?

Charlie Lovett

#12. I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers.

Rick Boucher

#13. They have a voice and I love seeing them in such a positive way. - JC, 15, USA

Jazmin Williams

#14. Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

Oprah Winfrey

#15. You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.'
'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.

Bill Watterson