Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Leaves from a Notebook, Ponkapog Papers (1903)
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See Amazon.com.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Books that have become classics
“Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.” -
Monday, February 19, 2007
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Leaves from a Notebook, Ponkapog Papers (1903)
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Science fiction is no more written for scientists
“Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.”
Brian W. Aldiss Introduction to Penguin Science Fiction (1962)
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Writing books is better than
"Writing books is better than planting vines: the latter serves only the needs of the stomach, whereas the former feeds the soul."
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
That is a good book
“That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.” Amos Bronson Alcott, "Table Talk" (1877)
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
The richest minds
"The richest minds need not large libraries." Amos Bronson Alcott
"Table Talk" Learning Books (1877)
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
One must be rich in thought
One must be rich in thought and character owe nothing to books, though propension is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more -- book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned. Amos Bronson Alcott, Tablets.
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Good books, like good friends...
“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable; and like these are approached with difference, not sought too familiarly nor too often, having the precedence only when friens tire.” Amos Bronson Alcott. 'Books,' Laurel Leaves (1876)
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.
Monday, August 28, 2006
Books are the most mannerly ...
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offence. Amos Bronson Alcott,
(Concord Days 1872)
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.
Friday, August 18, 2006
Reading Time is ...
“The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.” John Aiken, Letters from a father to his son (1796)
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 4. See Amazon.com.
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Saturday, August 12, 2006
Lonely Job....
Dear author, please be aware again...
“Writing is the loneliest job in the world.” Bill Adler (Inside publishing, 1982)
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 4. See Amazon.com.
Punch Line: And, I did accomplish it (albiet, not in solitude and loneliness; rather it was done in a synchronous mode, with a real-time zeal to capture and catalog all the relevant sources in cyberspace). See my new book: Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives, by Mohamed Taher, Scarecrow Press, 2006.
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Authors: Ides of March...
Dear author, please be aware...
"When you are published be prepared for the shock of not finding your book in every bookstore." Bill Adler (Inside publishing, 1982)
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 4. See Amazon.com.
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Monday, July 17, 2006
Value of knowledge is...
”Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another” Joseph Addison (English Essayist, Poet, Dramatist and Statesman, 1672 - 1719) [Guardian, no. 111, Letter of Alexander to Aristotle]
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 3. See Amazon.com.
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Friday, July 07, 2006
Knowledge Flow is ...
”And it is no wonder if a great deal of Knowledge, which is not capable of making a man wise, has a natural tendency to make him vain and arrogant.”
Joseph Addison (English Essayist, Poet, Dramatist and Statesman, 1672 - 1719) [The Spectator June 30, 1711]
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 3. See Amazon.com.
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A book that I enjoy is: Knowledge & Flow of Information, by DRETSKE. Blackwell Publishers (1981)
"An attempt to develop a theory of knowledge and a philosophy of mind using ideas derived from the mathematical theory of communication developed by Claude Shannon. Information is seen as an objective commodity defined by the dependency relations between distinct events. Knowledge is then analyzed as information caused belief. Perception is the delivery of information caused belief. Perception is the delivery of information in analog form (experience) for conceptual utilization by cognitive mechanisms. The final chapters attempt to develop a theory of meaning (or belief content) by viewing meaning as a certain kind of information-carrying role. "
Pt. I Information: Ch. 1 Communication Theory; Ch. 2 Communication and Information; Ch. 3 A Semantic Theory of Information
Pt. II Knowledge and Perception: Ch. 4 Knowledge; Ch. 5 The Communication Channel; Ch. 6 Sensation and Perception;
Pt. III Meaning and Belief: Ch. 7 Coding and Content; Ch. 8 The Structure of Belief;
Ch. 9 Concepts and Meaning;
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Books are the legacies...
”Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.”
Joseph Addison (English Essayist, Poet, Dramatist and Statesman, 1672 - 1719) [The Spectator 10 Sept., 1711]
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 3. See Amazon.com.
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