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This essay by Andrew Hui called Dreams of the Universal Library is beautiful and explores ideas such as what constitutes as knowledge, and how to turn data into information, information into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom.
Andrew Hui • Dreams of the Universal Library
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of the obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth-century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German monk toward the end of the fourteenth century.
William Weaver • The Name of the Rose
EP.14 Andrew Hui on aphorisms and the universal library by Reverb by Sane
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Seb Falk • The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers,” author Neil Gaiman said. “A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
Mario Gabriele • All the Answers | The Generalist
A library may be very large; but if it is in disorder, it is not so useful as one that is small but well arranged.
Arthur Schopenhauer • On Thinking for Oneself
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Jazmine West • 19 cards