"Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their……" — Jason Epstein
"Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes."
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10 Quotes by Jason Epstein
Jason Epstein has 10 quotes on this site.
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A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human…
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You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage…
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Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of…
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Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people,…
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Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance:…
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The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so…
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By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb…
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The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically…
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Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers…
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More Breeders Quotes
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The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
— Mark Twain
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No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.
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Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows,…
— Rod Coronado
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Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the…
— Edwin Conklin
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Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant…
— David C.H. Austin
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The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these…
— John L. Lewis
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It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is…
— William James
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A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.
— William Wrigley, Jr.
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It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other…
— Gilbert Parker
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You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words…
— Ann Aguirre
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I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of…
— David Mitchell
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