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
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 bicycle is a vehicle of revolution. It can destroy the tyranny of the automobile as effectively as the printing press brought… — Daniel Behrman Copy Share Image
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy.… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money"... If that's all they want to do,… — Philippe Kahn Copy Share Image
To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which,… — Rupert Murdoch 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
Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Let's say I am a chocoholic and I eat tons of chocolate a day. A hundred thousands of tons a day. I… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“Instead of wasting his time in Frankfurt and Tokyo, the finance minster should focus on Indian housewives and help them balance their… — R. Vaidyanathan Copy Share Image
Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has… — Ben Bernanke 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
At Facebook, we’re inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the… — Mark Zuckerberg 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
Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
There isn't a single government agency that can't function. There's more money in this federal government, there's more money allocated than these… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
