“Librarians wield unfathomable power. With a flip of the wrist they can hide your dissertation behind piles of old Field and Stream magazines. They can find data for your term paper that you never knew existed. They may even point you toward new and appropriate subject headings. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. Librarians are all-knowing and all-seeing. They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to the masses. They preserve every aspect of human knowledge. Librarians rule...”

“People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledgeextends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines.They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to the masses.Librarians rule. And they will kick the crap out of anyone who saysotherwise.”

“All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.”

“Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political landscape of the twentieth century sitting at a library table. Still, modern librarians are more afraid of ingnorance than they are of the potential devastation that knowledge can bring. (p. 192)”

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”

“Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.”