Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

Peter Singer Quotes