The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press, and Protestantism… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected,… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke… — Jim Rogers 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
The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their… — Pamela McCorduck Copy Share Image
Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people… — Murray Horwitz Copy Share Image
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“He cannot lock us all up.” “He has prisons enough.” “For bodies, yes. But what are bodies? He can take our goods,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Humanism had begun in Florence, Italy, about 20 years before the invention of the printing press. Many scholars there were astonished at… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
Something happens in school sometimes where you're like, 'Oh, I'm not an expert, and I have to defer to people who are.'… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The bank's product is debt, because the banks want to make sure that they can get paid for the debt. But ultimately… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it… — James E. Burke Copy Share Image
“I believe the internet could prove to be as momentous an invention, as profound a platform. This is why we must protect… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“I’d like to see a lot of this stuff in print before I die—but not the bulk of it, oh no! I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“The Chinese people had invented the compass, paper, the printing press, gunpowder, the seismograph, the crossbow, and the umbrella; they had sailed… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“In the dark, dank world of the Tunnels, I would call upon this memory. And there would be a flicker of candlelight.… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
First book was handwritten, then the printing press, now we've got our Kindles. To be able to push a button and a… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does… — Eugen Richter Copy Share Image
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