#libra

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. ↗

— Huston Smith

#dead #exclusively #facts #full #hand

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#library #bible

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#library #programmers #reinvent #reinvent the wheel #saves

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#first #foremost #had #lab #library

I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers. ↗

— Rick Boucher

#balance #camp #consumers #digital #finds

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#about #carry #courses #fieldwork #folklore

Inside the front flap of the book were handwritten names of the dozen or so people who had checked the book out before Naomi. Instead of writing her name, Naomi had a thin paper receipt with the due date printed on it. She could never possess this book the way those other people had. It was one of those uselessly nostalgic and sentimental thoughts that serve only our own romantic ideals, but I couldn't help believing it was true nonetheless. I took a pencil out from behind the register and handed it to her. ↗

— Dinaw Mengestu

#libraries #beauty

Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#idea

The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance. ↗

— Libba Bray

#words-to-live-by #dreams

Why try to memorize everything? The only things I ever memorize are my address and my phone number. Everything else you can look up in a library. It's the understanding of the concepts that's important. ↗

— James Freihaut

#memory #science #science