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Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. – Richard Powers

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My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. – Richard Powers

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Technology
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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. – Richard Powers

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design
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Nutrimentum spiritus (food for the soul). – Berlin Royal Library, inscription

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Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. – William Dyer

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What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists. – Archibald MacLeish, "The Premise of Meaning," American Scholar, 5 June 1

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I always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges, translated from Spanish

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