“Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.”

“My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search.”

“Live in the library, for Christ’s sake! Don’t live on your goddamn computers and the internet and all that crap. Go to the library!”

“It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.”

“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.”

“On the other hand, it is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.”