#libra

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#curiosity #developed #except #frequent #had

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. ↗

— Peter Singer

#close #devise #digital #genome #human

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. ↗

— Peter Singer

#containing #dreamed #ever #everything #library

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. ↗

— Peter Singer

#amount #available #connection #dwarfs #easier

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

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. ↗

— David Strathairn

#film #history #history books #libraries #now

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth. ↗

— Peter Straub

#alarmed #books #corrupt #eager #historical

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

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#cattle #classrooms #cricket #empty #even

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