Citat som inspirerar mig

”Vi drunknar i information, men törstar efter kunskap” Peter Naisbitt

”In a world that is fundamentally unequal, neutrality upholds inequality and represents indifference to the marginalization of members of our community.”
Meredith Farkas

”We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
Albert Einstein

”The path to becoming a librarian: you must want to change the world”
Pam Smith on Twitter

”If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Desmond Tutu

”A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of up-to-the-minute politickal fashions and atlases and plays in pentameter! A Library should be full of exclamations! Shouts of delight and horror as the wonders of the world are discovered or the lies of the heavens uncovered or the wild adventures of devil-knows-who sent romping out of the pages. A Library should be full of now-just-a-minutes and that-can’t-be-rights and scientifick folk running skelter to prove somebody wrong. It should positively vibrate with laughing at comedies and sobbing at tragedies, it should echo with gasps as decent ladies glimpse indecent things and indecent ladies stumble upon secret and scandalous decencies! A Library should not shush; it should roar!”
Catherynne M. Valente

“To practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict.”
– The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools & Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World, by Ronald Heifitz et al

”If you can butcher a hog in a library, then all sorts of other things become possible” Sean Casserley

”The library of the future, whether the physical space or its digital resources, can be the place where you put things together, make something new, meet new people, and share what you and others bring to the table. It’s peer-to-peer, hands-on, community-based and creation-focused.”
Miguel Figueroa

”A woman’s opinion is the mini-skirt of the internet” Laurie Penny

”… libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education …, about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.”
Neil Gaiman

”So the one thing I can say about libraries is that there is no one thing to say about libraries: as long as communities are diverse, libraries will reflect that diversity.”
Nate Hill

”A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead.”
Caitlin Moran

”The library of the 21st century is a community workshop, a hub filled with the tools of the knowledge economy.” Brian Resnick

”What is a book? It’s what you want it to be.” Mathew Ingram

”Public libraries have always been places where skilled information professionals assisted the general public with the eternal quest to understand the world.”
Cory Doctrow

”Bad libraries build collections; good libraries build services; great libraries build communities.” R. David Lankes

”Libraries are not about books. In fact, they were never about books.”
Thomas Frey

”Cutting libraries in a recession is like cutting hospitals in a plague.”
Eleanor Cumblehumle 

”Reading a book on a screen is like enjoying wine intravenously”
Robert McCrum

”Vision utan handling är en dagdröm, handling utan vision är en mardröm”

”To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads.”
— Jon Bing

”And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”

— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

”The future of the Web is going to be about empowering your biggest fans and your best supporters. You’ll give them the tools to talk about you, and they will do that because you’ve created something that they want to talk about.”
Seth Godin

”Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
Clay Shirky

”Om jag vill lyckas med att föra en människa mot ett bestämt mål, måste jag först finna henne där hon är och börja just där.”
Sören Kirkegaard

”Möjligheterna kommer krypande med en snigels hastighet och försvinner med blixtens”
Ilmar Reepalu

“It’s not about tolerating or aestheticizing chaos; it’s about finding order and meaning in the world, and making decisions that help create that order.”
Steven Johnson om data- och tv-spel

“De riktigt skickliga marknadsförarna är de som befinner sig på rätt ställe vid rätt tidpunkt med rätt tonfall, de som inte annonserar sin närvaro. Det är de som påverkar oss mest.”
Karin Lindström i Computer Sweden om hur vuxenvärlden förhåller sig till communities där internets infödingar huserar

…”om någon period i svensk ekonomisk historia skall kallas revolutionerande bör den beteckningen reserveras för 1870-talet” Lennart Lundmark i Tidens gång och tidens värde

”I själva verket kan man tala om en skriftspråksparentes, en begränsad tid från cirka 1850 till 1950 då skriftkulturen hade sin dominerande epok (Kjørup 1987). Innan dess var det framför allt den muntliga kulturen som dominerade, men under skriftkulturens århundrade växte bild- och symbolspråket fram, först som en förstärkare av skriftspråket, men efterhand kom det alltmer att utveckla sina egna lagar och följa sin väg.”
Ur Barbro Janssons artikel ”Virtuella lekkamrater” (Kulturella perspektiv 1996:4) där hon citerar Søren Kjørup ur ”Mediabarn. Barnet – bildene – ordene og teknologien” (Oslo 1987)

”Det är inte den starkaste arten som överlever, inte heller den mest intelligenta, utan den art som bäst anpassar sig till förändring.”
Charles Darwin

”När förändringens vindar blåser bygger en del vindskydd, andra väderkvarnar.”
Mao Zedong

”Ni ska ha många bord, sa han. Små bord och stora. På överraskande platser. Ingen vill sitta stilla på samma ställe på en stor fest. De kommer fnatta omkring värre än vanligt, är jag rädd. Och först ska ni bjuda på det finaste ni har. Senare gör det detsamma vad de får för då är de glada i alla fall. Och stör dem inte med uppvisningar, sång och sånt där, utan låt dem vara program själva.”

Tove Jansson: Trollkarlens hatt