To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC

I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the methodical path of the Jesuits.... It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that all can reach salvation.

I felt like poisoning a monk.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.