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I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
— Robert Darnton
I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.
— Graham Nash
We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
— Robert Darnton
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
— Robert Darnton
Her face a mask of fury and determination.
— Jody Hedlund
Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.
— Sam Ewing
Is she not passing fair?
— William Shakespeare
News in not what happened but a story about what happened.
— Robert Darnton
I think if people read more, that is a better world.
— Jeff Bezos
People think that when you use Google you're finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help.
— Robert Darnton
The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.
— Robert Darnton
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.
— Robert Darnton
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?
— Herman Melville
I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.
— Keanu Reeves
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
— Samuel Johnson
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.
— Robert Darnton
The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.
— Kahlil Gibran
Chaos doesn't do, it undoes.
— Jonathan Carroll
We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.
— Samuel Florman
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.
— Robert Darnton
Digital data are more fragile than printed material.
— Robert Darnton
There are nights when dreams are so vivid it's impossible to believe that they aren't really a part of your waking life. Your
— Leigh Raines
I was young and frightened and craved respect and its ugly cousin, approval, so I did as I was told.
— Sherman Alexie
Texts are always in flux.
— Robert Darnton