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

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.

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.

The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

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.

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

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.