Ifs Quote by James E. Burke

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 coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and,…

— James E. Burke

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

— E. F. Schumacher

The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

— Noam Chomsky

“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

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

— Carl Sagan

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. The printing…

— Howard Rheingold

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

— Victor Hugo

Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

— Joseph Pulitzer

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

— Joseph Pulitzer

“It is too early to tell whether the Internet’s effect on media will be as radical as that of the printing press. It is…

— John Naughton

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we…

— Neil Postman