"Computing belongs within the humanities because it accords with their central project...not to solve problems, but to make them worse...to help scholars ask better questions."
// Willard Mccarty |
"This is a danger we are all struggling with in humanities computing -- to what extent does it hide or distract us from that which it was supposed to compute."
// Geoffrey Rockwell |
"It is true that “digital humanities” probably defies any precise definition and that it can hardly be called a discipline...This does not mean, however, that the ultimate goal necessarily is an all-inclusive digital humanities."
// Patrik Svensson |
"Digital libraries that are available on the Internet can reach audiences far beyond these university libraries, extending into schools, public libraries, workplaces, and private homes."
// Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox |
"We need new hybrid practitioners: artist-theorists, programming humanists...critical race coders...We must remember that computers are themselves encoders of culture...computation responds to culture as much as it controls it."
// Tara McPherson |
"The greatest service that the digital humanities can contribute to the humanities is to practice instrumentalism in a way that demonstrates the necessity of breaking down the artificial divide of the “two cultures” to show that the humanities are needed alongside the sciences to solve the intricately interwoven natural, technological, economic, social, political, and cultural problems of the global age."
// Alan Liu |