The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of the modern commander.” — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When our founders created America, it was in the age of the printing press, when individuals could freely join the conversation. And… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
There are some bright spots, to be sure, but the internet is still in a Wild West phase, as was the case… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong. If a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which,… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“Instead of wasting his time in Frankfurt and Tokyo, the finance minster should focus on Indian housewives and help them balance their… — R. Vaidyanathan Copy Share Image
In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
I am not offering this is a critique of the internet, its just that there are a lot of factors involved. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“It is too early to tell whether the Internet’s effect on media will be as radical as that of the printing press.… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“Before the invention of the moveable type printing press by Gutenburg in 1439, Bibles were copied by hand and extremely expensive. Only… — Andrew M. Davis Copy Share Image
Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“We would not accept a situation in which every home and business had to operate its own power plant, library, printing press… — Scientific American Copy Share Image
When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of… — Jay Moore Copy Share Image
I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“Gutenberg had died after inventing Europe’s first real printing press. The Chinese and Koreans had long used wood-block printing, and even ceramic… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
It's interesting to see the lament of each generation overwhelmed by the next new tool. I can show you passages from scholars… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
“In Virginia, the printing press was deliberately restricted by the powers that be, to keep reading matter from the masses, while the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar,… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press.… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
