It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come.