# Quotes about paper and books

<blockquote>[I]f books had been invented after the computer, they would have been considered a big breakthrough. Books have several hundred simultaneous paper-thin, flexible displays. They boot instantly. They run on very low power at a very low cost.</blockquote>
[Joseph M. Jacobson, MIT, quoted in ARTS IN AMERICA; Creating 'the Last Book' To Hold All the Others by Christopher Lehman-Haupt, April 8, 1998, New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/08/books/arts-in-america-creating-the-last-book-to-hold-all-the-others.html)