Pat Conroy Quotes

If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.

Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.

In the early days, I really felt the pain of not being able to find information easily. I guess that helped me to develop an urge to write things like a search engine.

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford first talked about his love of the countryside or where he quotes Larkin or what was the beginning of his hatred of racism or where he first encountered domestic violence; I would be able to find it straight away.

That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.

I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.

I think fondly of the rabbit holes I disappeared down when I researched papers for history and English because I couldn't find quite what I was looking for, or because I had to go through so much material to find examples for my thesis.

Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.

The Internet has kind of allowed me to go to a virtual library whenever I want to find out something about something and not use one source but find multiple ways to research certain topics or subjects.

The access to information the web provides is both daunting and exciting. Information that was once secreted away in library stacks is now so much more easily available.

Any child can tell you what Google does - Google gives you the answers. But Google doesn't, not really.

With the Internet you can research anything.