“Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others need for periods of legitimate access. A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.” PeopleNeedsPersonsBookRealHelpingFoundSecurityInformationPeriodsProtectGainsLibraryAccessCollectionsAssetsLockedOwnershipRenunciationLendingLocked Up Author:Bill Mollison
“My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during that time is hyper-focusing on the individual pieces - trying to make each one sit up and really do some surprising work.” WritingTryingIdeasHardIndividualPiecesPeriodsCollectionsSurprisingHyper Author:George Saunders
“During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.” WorldYearsCompanyKnownTalentPeriodsProjectsResearchCollectionsFifteenParticipationManhattanFifteen YearsManhattan Project Author:Frederick Reines
“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections” RunningAmericaFormLeaderEconomyPeriodsTaxesBasesIronyCollectionsSovietSmoothPhilanthropySplendidBreakdownFranticEvasionTax Evasion Book:Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties Source: Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties
“I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home.” TryingHomeCertainForcePerfectWrittenPeriodsCollections Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez