Changed Quote by Derrick de Kerckhove

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin…

— Beatrice Warde

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time,…

— Neri Oxman

The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years…

— Terence McKenna

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

— Benjamin Disraeli

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

— Nicholas G. Carr

“As to the inventions of printing and of paper, we generally consider these in the wrong oredr, attributing too much importnace to printing and…

— Norbert Wiener

“The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.”

— George Orwell

“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The…

— Jaron Lanier

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

— Thomas Jefferson

Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning…

— Ruth Ozeki

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

— Douglas Engelbart

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

— Victor Hugo