Printing press Quote by Kurt Andersen

“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press, and Protestantism was its…

— Kurt Andersen

There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity…

— David Brewster

“The emergence of the steam engine and its entire subsequent development was driven by market needs. The original need was to pump water out…

— Edward A. Hudson

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

— Victor Hugo

“Just as James Watt refused to license his steam engine, suppressing the development of that technology over the quarter century that elapsed between his…

— Adam Greenfield

Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the…

— Jason Epstein

“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

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

— James Bryant Conant

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

— Ha-Joon Chang

With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or the…

— Ada Lovelace

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater…

— Christopher Morley

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis