"To be able to key one sheet of a million before an operator in a second or two, with the possibility of then adding n…"

"On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and …"

"Whenever logical processes of thought are employed — that is, whenever thought for a time runs along an accepted groo…"

"There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the ma…"

"Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing. When data of a…"

"Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name,…"

"Only a small part of the interior of the memex is devoted to storage, the rest to mechanism. Yet if the user inserted…"

"A mathematician is not a man who can readily manipulate figures; often he cannot. He is not even a man who can readil…"

"There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within…"

"Most of the memex contents are purchased on microfilm ready for insertion. Books of all sorts, pictures, current peri…"