The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives. — Jay Inslee 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
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
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
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
When our founders created America, it was in the age of the printing press, when individuals could freely join the conversation. And… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and… — Francis Cornford 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing… — Marianne Williamson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make… — Naveen Jain 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
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
It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
It's interesting to see the lament of each generation overwhelmed by the next new tool. I can show you passages from scholars… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept… — Alan Furst 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
