AtomicQuote

James H. Billington Quote

If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully exploiting the information superhighways of the future.

James H. Billington

If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully exploiting the information superhighways of the future.

Tags: libraries

Related Quotes

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

Tags: abode, abodes, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, atheism, atheist, atheists, bible

Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that ascertained the mechanical princ...

Robert G. Ingersoll

Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that ascertained the mechanical princ...

Tags: alessandro volta, benjamin franklin, beranger, bible, bonaventura cavalieri, bonaventura francesco cavalieri, books, burns, cavalieri, chemistry

Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He'll often take better care of his books than of his own health; he'll spend more...

Mikita Brottman

Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He'll often take better care of his books than of his own health; he'll spend more...

Tags: bibliophiles, bibliophilia, books, libraries, reading

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

Andrew Carnegie

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

Tags: books, community, enrich, libraries

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

Joyce Rachelle

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

Tags: book lovers, book metaphors, bookish, books, libraries, library, metaphors, misplaced, misunderstood, out of place

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

Elizabeth McCracken

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

Tags: books, libraries

Libraries raised me.

Ray Bradbury

Libraries raised me.

Tags: books, libraries, library, reading

The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly, like the universe. It had logic. It was dependable. U...

Jeanette Winterson

The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly, like the universe. It had logic. It was dependable. U...

Tags: dewey decimal, filing, jung, librarians, libraries, life, logic, order

Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them.' It is in this way that the librarian has become a censor of literature... books that distinctly commend what...

Arthur E. Bostwick

Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them.' It is in this way that the librarian has become a censor of literature... books that distinctly commend what...

Tags: ala, book seller, books, greatness, heaven, hell, librarians, libraries, morals

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

Carl Sagan

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

Tags: archives, communal memory, humanity, humanity and society, humans, libraries, library, memory, science
About James H. Billington

James Hadley Billington (June 1, 1929 – November 20, 2018) was an American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions. He served as the 13th Librarian of Congress after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, and his appointment was approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate. He retired as Librarian on September 30, 2015.