“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
“I was obviously born to draw better than most people, just as the widow Berman and Paul Slazinger were obviously born to… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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 gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Look at the history of the printing press, when this was invented what sort of consequences this had. Or industrialization, what sort… — Angela Merkel 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
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
“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
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
“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
“I was irresistibly drawn to write about Latter-Day Saints not only because I already knew something about their theology, and admired much… — Jon Krakauer 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
