We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.

- J. C. R. Licklider

My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, det…

- J. C. R. Licklider

About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed to know. Much mor…

- J. C. R. Licklider

It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries to…

- J. C. R. Licklider

It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the displa…

- J. C. R. Licklider

The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnershi…

- J. C. R. Licklider

Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing …

- J. C. R. Licklider

One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the…

- J. C. R. Licklider

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it…

- J. C. R. Licklider