Libraries And Librarians Quotes - Page 5

• The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Reading, Book, Thought Provoking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

  Vicki Myron

  Book, Reading, People

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• Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

  John Braine

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  "The New York Times", October 7, 1962.

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• Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

  Patrick Ness

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  "Patrick Ness slams library cuts". www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

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• I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

  Neil Gaiman

  War, Imagination, Soldier

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• When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

  Joan Bauer

  Reading, Book, Naps

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• If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

  Peter Singer

  Book, Reading, Moon

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.300, Princeton University Press

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• I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.

  John Jakes

  Jobs, Believe, Book

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• The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.9, Vintage Canada

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• Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

  Barbara Bush

  Thinking, Library, Done

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