J. C. R. Licklider Quotes

We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Without the library, I would have been lost.

A well-run, well-stocked library with access to great books as well as the Internet is essential.

So I'm in the library, and I have keyboards out and my headphones out. Everybody's like, "Mike are you making beats right now?" and I'm like, "Yeah... sorry!"

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

You have to bring books to explain your work.

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

Every library is an arsenal.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

God bless the Reference Librarians

A library is infinity under a roof.

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress

When in doubt, go to the library.

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper. In my case, the only thing that made sense of the world was you, and without you the world will seem as garbled and tragic as a malfunctioning typewrit9.

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.