Melissa Terras > Quotes

“Just as the failure of the Paris museum project freed Rodin from the restrictions of a functional door, the end of the Second World War freed Weaver from seeing the computer only as a warfare tool for ballistics and cryptanalysis.”
― Melissa Terras, Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader

“Likewise, Humanities Computing is the creative result of failure on the part of the manufacturers of early computers to produce operational machines in time to be used during the Second World War (or, one can argue, of failure on the part of the allied forces to make the war last longer).”
― Melissa Terras, Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader

“Hey, you write with a ballpoint pen, and I write with a ballpoint pen ... Let’s make us the Blue Pen Club! It is what we write with the pen that is important, not the technology.”
― Melissa Terras, Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader

“Yes, as long as things are being compared to food, Digital Humanities may indeed be the smoked salmon, sour cream, capers and dill of the English Department smorgasbord.”
― Melissa Terras, Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader

“Since the humanities are not problem-oriented, Lou Burnard argues that their methodologies cannot be formalized.”
― Melissa Terras, Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader