“Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.” EndsAnswersWonderDangerousLibrarySooner Or Later Author:Rajneesh
“The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under the exactingly careful guidance of Bharat Tandon of the University of East Anglia. Belknap has once again done its end of the job superbly: the book is a physical treat-luxuriantly over-sized, heavy with quality paper and solid binding, decked out in a beautiful cover and dozens of well-chosen illustrations throughout. This is one of the prettiest Jane Austen volumes available in bookstoresthis season.” WellsBookEndsDoneJobsBeautifulQualityNovelGrowingPaperTreatsSeasonsPressesLibraryUniversityCarefulAvailableHeavyEastChosenGuidanceDozenVolumeGorgeousJaneEntryBindingIllustrationEmmaAustenPrettiestBharatJane Austen Novel Author:Steve Donoghue
“When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out of vanity, or you tend to be indiscriminate about it. I mean, in the old days, it was tricky, you had to go to various encyclopedias, you had to go to the library, maybe spend a day there, whatever. But in the end, if you found something, it was really exciting. Now you hit a couple of buttons and you get some information. Which, by the way, is almost always presented in that same goddamn mediocre style that characterizes the Internet for me. It is slightly deadening.” IfsKnowsWayMeanEndsUseFoundToo MuchStyleInformationCoupleInternetExcitingLibraryVariousVanityAcquireButtonsMediocreTrickyOld DaysDisagreeableEncyclopediaToo Much Information Author:Norman Mailer
“Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.” ThinkingMayBookEndsUseReadingStudyMethodLibraryAidsLiteracyLibrarianPropose Author:Edward Gibbon
“Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.” EndsLostBehindsPaperResearchNotesLibraryCardsWanderPapersLoadedPublic LibraryWandering Around Book:The coast of Chicago Source: The coast of Chicago
“So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.” IfsRealEndsMightActionOrderExampleChangedProgramHotLibraryUnix Author:Linus Torvalds