When digital technology started becoming the norm, you’ve got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won’t last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Nature abhors annihilation.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.