A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.