Licklider Quotes

#1. We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.

J. C. R. Licklider

#2. In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made
a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.
with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?
Not at all: it absolutely stops short.

Fanny Burney

#3. Inspiration is not something that you sit passively and hope for. Inspiration is a lifestyle that must be practised continuously and is never completely mastered.

Mensah Oteh

#4. It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.

Mark Morris

#5. The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.

J. C. R. Licklider

#6. Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

John Trudell

#7. If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps ...

Paulo Coelho

#8. It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the display.

J. C. R. Licklider