Long-Term Preservation Quotes

If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

I'm Mr. Grits. One of the non-perishables.

I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think happens in 50 years, I don't think it sits empty in 50 years. Maybe somebody else's name is there. But you can't leave it empty.

I've been frozen for 30 years. I've got to see if my bits and pieces are still working.

FROZEN DREAM I'll take the dream I had last night And put it in my freezer, So someday long and far away When I'm an old grey geezer, I'll take it out and thaw it out, This lovely dream I've frozen, And boil it up and sit me down A dip my old cold toes in.

I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.

Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we want to impress.

The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.

I constantly work with material that could be two years old, five years old, ten years old, as well as new things.

We are not going to waste our reserves and burn them for any political ambitions. We will act very carefully.

Freeze herbs by stem and all - don't just freeze the leaves. It's better to keep them sturdier. Put the stems and the leaves together into a plastic bag, and just wrap it up and freeze it like that.

Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more.