O'Reilly Network: How the Wayback Machine Works [Jan. 21, 2002]

Kahle: We're trying to show how people can do it themselves. We're trying to encourage everyone to take their old content that's not online and put it online. A professor at UC Berkeley said that students use the Web as the resource of first resort, which is a huge change. But that's a little dangerous if the Web doesn't have the good stuff on it, and many people complain it doesn't. Instead of trying to whip students to go back to the physical library, let's put the good stuff on the Net. Otherwise, we could have a whole generation learning from ephemeral content collections, as opposing to learning from the books of the ancients. And a lot of materials are not there yet.