Tom Peters Quotes

Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

I want to continue to strengthen Harvard's fabulous collections in old printed material, but at the same time, I want to help Harvard move into the world of digitized information.

If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.

The most dramatic effect of digital libraries will not be on us, the well-booked, but on the billions of people worldwide who are underserved by ordinary paper books.

The Internet serves as a channel of endless information through which individuals now access the news, employment opportunities, education, entertainment, etc.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind.

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.

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

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.

That's the power of the Internet: you can literally find everything.

Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.

Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone to own a computer. We're aiming at everybody who uses a computer as an information access device. The original idea was to build one cheaply enough to put one on every desk.

With enough libraries, all content is free.

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their lives.

[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.