Culture Quote by Jane Jacobs

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

— Neil Postman

I think that the Internet and print behave in a complementary manner.

— Hubert Burda

“...printing and the proliferation of written materials allowed ordinary people to be members of any number of relational communities.”

— Wendy Griswold

“If culture did not filter, it would be inane — as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we…

— Umberto Eco

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful…

— John Mortimer

Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct. People feel, I think, less certain about their identity, less…

— Barack Obama

“We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of…

— Antonio Gramsci

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

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities…

— N. Scott Momaday

I am not offering this is a critique of the internet, its just that there are a lot of factors involved. It does offer…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Thomas Jefferson

The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically…

— L. Neil Smith