Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

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.

I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

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.

Before we're born we've all of us been dead for millions of years...but we're always afraid of going back...

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required

Ordinary faithfulness leads to extraordinary impact.

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.