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Printing Quotes by Neil Postman
- As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.
- Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown.
- Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have…
More Printing Quotes
- I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends… — Bill Brandt
- I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling… — Geraldine Brooks
- The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. — Thomas Carlyle
- The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. — Douglas Engelbart
- After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially… — Johannes Kepler
- In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other… — Abraham Lincoln
- The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information. — Thomas Jefferson
- The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest… — Jonathan Swift