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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Edward O Wilson

I created this library as a tribute to the Library of Alexandria. My ambition is that this place will be a source of learning and innovation and that it will bring back the glories of the ancient library.

Ismail Serageldin

Finding the links between people and ideas is the true magic of innovation.

Steven Johnson

What transforms this world is—knowledge... Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is...

Mishima

We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the warning that all we gather will be lost, but also that much of it can be collected again.

Alberto Manguel

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.

Charles C. Seifert

Computers, by their nature, tend to present information in isolated fragments, lacking the necessary context and meaning that are crucial for students to develop a comprehensive understanding. This decontextualization of knowledge could hinder students' ability to grasp the bigger picture and make connections between different pieces of information, thereby limiting their capacity to appreciate the broader significance of what they learn.

Neil Postman

Digital environments have the potential for a high degree of procedural and participatory complexity, which makes them well suited for capturing the densely layered, interconnected nature of human experience.

Janet Murray

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation.

Margaret J. Wheatley

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Marshall McLuhan

The things in civilization we most prize are not of ourselves. They exist by grace of the doings and sufferings of the continuous human community in which we are a link. Ours is the responsibility of conserving, transmitting, rectifying and expanding the heritage of values we have received, that those who come after us may receive it more solid and secure, more widely accessible and more generously shared than we have received it.

John Dewey

The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realize that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are systemic problems, which means that they are interconnected and interdependent.

Fritjof Capra

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Syed Balkhi

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt Disney

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter Drucker

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H.G. Wells

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ability to take multiple perspectives, to see the partial truth in them and then to be able to seam them together into something that isn't a perspective is fundamental to navigating reality.

Daniel Schmachtenberger

The task of the future is to bring the world to consciousness in unthinkable, new images and symbols, rather than to merely explain it.

Vilem Flusser

The only way you can exercise the mind is by bringing new ideas into it

Chuck Jones

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

George Orwell

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

Salman Rushdie

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.