Knowledge Storage Quotes

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

While most of the world's information is beginning to be stored electronically, most of the world's expertise still resides in books.

The acquisition of knowledge was not for us so much a normal process of education as the storing up of weapons in an arsenal by means of which we hoped later to be able to hold our own in a hostile.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory.

In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses. You have about 1,000-trillion synapses - 10 to the 15, it's a very big number.

A library is thought in cold storage.

I'm not a library.

In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.