Robert Darnton Quotes

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

  Robert Darnton

  Philosophy, Ideas, Literature

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• No minimizaría la brecha digital, que separa el mundo informatizado del resto, ni subestimaría la importancia de los libros tradicionales.

  Robert Darnton

  Book, World, Digital Divide

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• El campesino de la Francia moderna habitaba un mundo de madrastras y huérfanos, de trabajo inexorable e interminable y de emociones brutales, tanto crudas como reprimidas. La condición humana ha cambiado tanto desde entonces que apenas podemos imaginar cómo era la vida de las personas cuyas vidas eran realmente desagradables, brutales y cortas. Por eso debemos releer a Mamá Ganso.

  Robert Darnton

  Mother, People, Toil

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• 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.

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  Mouths, American Revolution, Revolutionary

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• Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

  Robert Darnton

  Data, Digital, Materials

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• 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.

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  Oxford, England, 1960s

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

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  Mean, Facts, Century

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• As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.

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  Book, Communication, Writing

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

  Robert Darnton

  School, Important, Library

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• In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn't permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything.

  Robert Darnton

  Book, Google, Library

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• Mi trabajo me ha llevado de la investigación histórica a la participación en empresas de edición electrónica y a la dirección de las Bibliotecas de la Universidad de Harvard.

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  Taken, Historical, Library

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• 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.

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  Want, Historian, Journalist

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• As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.

  Robert Darnton

  Book, Historical, President

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