What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press! — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks. — Heather Brooke 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
“This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the… — Sara Sheridan 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
“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press,” — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did. — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument. — Agnes Strickland 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
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
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
By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American… — Phil Cooke Copy Share Image
People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only… — Charles Sumner 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
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
“Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“It changed the life of mankind more radically than the printing press. It created suburbs and a hundred other dependencies—sexual and economic… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“Consider this!” Edmond declared. “It took early humans over a million years to progress from discovering fire to inventing the wheel. Then… — Dan Brown 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
“Aren’t you the one who keeps telling everyone it’s their first duty to help Harry?” said Ron. “In that magazine of yours?”… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“The present threat is not based on conflicting ideas about America's basic principles. It is based on several serious problems that stem… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested.… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“...simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I stared at the pictogram of a burger nestled between similar representations of shakes, sodas, and fries, on the front of my… — Lish McBride Copy Share Image
“The first ‘networked era’ followed the introduction of the printing press to Europe in the late fifteenth century and lasted until the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Jack was behind it,waiting, with the corner of his lip pulled up in not quite a smile. "What?" he demanded. "What what?"… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
“CARL SAGAN SAID that if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. When he… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.” — The Bureau Chiefs Copy Share Image
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky 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