Brewster Kahle quotes:

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further - universal access to all knowledge. Interestingly, it is now technically doable

Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.

If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems.

We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.