Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past. — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
“Television is not old enough to have matched printing’s output of junk.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and,… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
I'm interested in businesses that take digital bits and turn them into interfaces for physical atoms. I'm also interested in drones, Bitcoin,… — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing… — John Katzman Copy Share Image
My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that,… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I don't like making fake things. And digital images that look like fake paintings disturb me. But when they don't look fake,… — Paul O. Zelinsky Copy Share Image
Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the… — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
My very first venture was a national student magazine to try to campaign against the [Vietnam] War. And so I wanted to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Here we have the heart of the difference between Hayek and Keynes: one knew that markets work to give us the best… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press! — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial. — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image