“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
“Before the invention of the moveable type printing press by Gutenburg in 1439, Bibles were copied by hand and extremely expensive. Only… — Andrew M. Davis Copy Share Image
Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“It is too early to tell whether the Internet’s effect on media will be as radical as that of the printing press.… — John Naughton 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
When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of… — Jay Moore 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
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
“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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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
What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does… — Eugen Richter 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
“Gutenberg had died after inventing Europe’s first real printing press. The Chinese and Koreans had long used wood-block printing, and even ceramic… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it… — James E. Burke Copy Share Image
“I’d like to see a lot of this stuff in print before I die—but not the bulk of it, oh no! I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
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One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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Something happens in school sometimes where you're like, 'Oh, I'm not an expert, and I have to defer to people who are.'… — Sal Khan 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
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
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Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their… — Pamela McCorduck Copy Share Image
Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people… — Murray Horwitz Copy Share Image
Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
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