“There is, of course, provision for consultation of the record by the usual scheme of indexing. If the user wishes to consult a certain book, he taps its code on the keyboard, and the title page of the book promptly appears before him, projected onto one of his viewing positions.”

“One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.”

“Why don’t you go somewhere quietly and consult your history books if you have no consciences to consult?”

“When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.”

“Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.”

“If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.”

“The purpose of a classification scheme is to arrange information, in documents on shelves or on cards in indexes, in a sequence that will be helpful to the user.”

“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.”

“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”

“At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.”