You are your projects!

Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.

There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.

The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.

I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.

The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.

To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.