Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.

“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.”

— Sara Sheridan

With the development of the Internet...we are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. I used to…

— John Perry Barlow

“Gutenberg had died after inventing Europe’s first real printing press. The Chinese and Koreans had long used wood-block printing, and even ceramic printing.”

— Andrew Marr

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

— Marshall McLuhan

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

— Robert M Hutchins

“These days, digitization enables us to view the copies [of the Gutenberg Bible] online without the need for a trip to the Euston Road,…

— Simon Garfield

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

— Victor Hugo

“It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He…

— Russell Grandinetti

“In asking me to contribute a mite to the memorial to Gutenberg you give me pleasure and do me honor. The world concedes without…

— Mark Twain

The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to…

— Vint Cerf

It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's a pretty…

— Michael Bierut

The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words.…

— Marshall McLuhan

I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.

— Jeff Bezos

Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line…

— Constance Hale

“Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.”

— Larry Stone