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

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.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

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

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.

America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash.

Iker has never stopped being one of the best goalkeepers in the world. For me, Iker is a top goalkeeper and has never not been.

No collusion, no obstruction. Comey is a leaker.

I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know.

Billy Gilbert hit a kamikaze back pass which Justin Fashinu pounced on like a black Frank Bruno

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.

The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.