Comments on: A Library of Human Imagination

By: A Few Random Links … | The Pretense of Knowledge

A Few Random Links … | The Pretense of Knowledge — Tue, 03 May 2011 10:38:39 +0000

[...] Absolutely amazing personal library, a must-see. [...]

By: Sw

Sw — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:43:17 +0000

I have actually visited this library and it is incredible, inspiring, and overwhelming. The Walker’s are very generous in sharing their masterpiece with many local school children, organizations, etc. — they had the imagination to make a collection out of all these artifacts and share it with many people….maybe they just don’t want the spotlight of the press. It is attached to their home.

By: Maria Popova

Maria Popova — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:36:11 +0000

@Michelle: Happens to the best of us. Fixed – good catch, thanks.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:18:34 +0000

I’m surprised that an article showcasing a collection of human achievements has a typo in it!

“drive us an make us human”

By: Jot0725

Jot0725 — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:28:56 +0000

“The library’s design, spearheaded by Walker’s wife, is a creative and intellectual feat of its own.”

Hey, so, ‘Walker’s wife’–does she have a name?? Maybe SHE should get some actual credit as well?

By: Justin Kownacki

Justin Kownacki — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:05:23 +0000

You don’t need to surround yourself with the world’s creations in order to appreciate creativity, or to create something worthwhile on your own. But it probably doesn’t hurt, either.

If you could afford to amass this collection, you probably would too. And you’d keep it private not because you didn’t want to share it, but because you wanted to defend it from the people who wouldn’t appreciate it as much as you do. It’s like a zoo for ideas.

The rest of us will be content to surround ourselves with a few good books and dream of the ones we’ll make on our own… someday…

By: The Library Rethought | Brain Pickings

The Library Rethought | Brain Pickings — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:11:43 +0000

[...] featured philanthropic geek Jay Walker’s Library of Human Imagination extensively [...]