Cataloging Quotes

“I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.”
― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree

“He would go to the bakery for a cake, and somewhere in the shop-I had never discovered where; it was one of the few secrets I had not fathomed-he kept a candle, which came out on this day every year, was lit, and which I blew out, with as good an impression of happiness as I could muster. Then we ate the cake, with tea, and settled down to quiet digestion and cataloging.”
― Diane Setterfield

“Cataloguing is an ancient profession; there are examples of such “ordainers of the universe” (as they were called by the Sumerians) among the oldest vestiges of libraries.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

“Remind me to tell you about the Cataloging Rebellion of 2159. That came about through a combination of incompetent Board members and a Head Librarian on a power trip....”
― Jim C. Hine

“The officer serving in the lab, when not assigned to an away team, was to make sure the information routed from the bridge was properly categorized and cataloged, and reported to Starfleet Command. This was one of the pillars of our civilization: ships all over the quadrant were taking in information and sending it to Starfleet Command, where it became part of the collective knowledge of the Federation.”
― David A. Goodman, The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard