Robert Caro says modern tools could help him locate documents faster, but he does not think they would have made writing his earlier books faster because he would still have read the documents.

“No. Be-- No. Well, well, it would've, might've made things faster, but it would've made it... It wouldn't... Just the way I am-”

“... I would look at the documents anyway. I, I... Things would, things would go faster now. But I think about what you just asked.”

“I was thinking about it the other day, and it's difficult for me to explain it, but I don't think it would've been any... I don't think it would've gone any faster.”

“I, I can't quite tell you why, but, um, certainly you could find the documents faster. But finding them is a small thing-”