Licklider Libraries Quotes & Sayings

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. — Theodor Adorno

I remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something. — Rick Riordan

Something amazing happens to everybody, every day. -- Annjea Morgan Llewor — Annjea Morgan Llewor

It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and ... a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services. — J. C. R. Licklider

We had forgotten to say that Jacopo was a Corsican. — Alexandre Dumas

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me. — Shirley Maclaine

I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does. — Harry Anderson

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion ... And we believe that we are entering a technological age in which we will be able to interact with the richness of living information
not merely in the passive way that we have become accustomed to using books and libraries, but as active participants in an ongoing process, bringing something to it through our interaction with it, and not simply receiving something from it by our connection to it. — J. C. R. Licklider