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1. "Digital data are more fragile than printed material." ~ Robert Darnton
2. "I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought." ~ Robert Darnton
3. "I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian." ~ Robert Darnton
4. "It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library." ~ Robert Darnton
5. "Texts are always in flux." ~ Robert Darnton
6. "The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st." ~ Robert Darnton
7. "The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s." ~ Robert Darnton
8. "We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace." ~ Robert Darnton
9. "All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers." ~ Robert Darnton
10. "As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s." ~ Robert Darnton
11. "As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007." ~ Robert Darnton
12. "I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner." ~ Robert Darnton
13. "I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books." ~ Robert Darnton
14. "In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn't permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything." ~ Robert Darnton
15. "It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals." ~ Robert Darnton
16. "My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries." ~ Robert Darnton
17. "Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty." ~ Robert Darnton
18. "The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that some people would feel that it's their property, so to speak." ~ Robert Darnton
19. "We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the future for decades or more, despite the endless innovations of technology." ~ Robert Darnton

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