Brewster Kahle Quotations

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.

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.

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.

My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

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.

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

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.

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

If we go and bring universal access to all human knowledge it will be remembered as one of the great things humankind has ever done,

If we pull this off, then we'll have done something very worthwhile,

If a band posts restrictions as to what materials can be put on the archive, there is a self-appointed sense of making sure the that the band's wishes are observed,

virtual library that would be brought to you by different search systems.

Other projects talk about snippets. We don't talk about snippets. We talk about books.

Social networks, search engines and things yet invented are critical as we bring millions of movies, books and musical recordings online.

The goal of the OCA archive is to digitize and make available globally sourced digital collections, including multimedia content, representing the creative output of humankind.