Creativity Quote by Mark Kurlansky

“Gutenberg had died after inventing Europe’s first real printing press. The Chinese and Koreans had long used wood-block printing, and even ceramic printing.”

— Andrew Marr

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

“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

“In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, print put forward a definition of intelligence that gave priority to the objective, rational use of the mind…

— Neil Postman

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

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

— Victor Hugo

“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

“Manuscript editions didn't immediately die out with the printing explosion that burst across Europe in the 1460s and 1470s. Manuscripts continued to be produced…

— Ian Lamont

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

— Ha-Joon Chang

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

— George Orwell

The solution was eventually found by Johannes Gutenberg, who made the breakthrough that finally established printing as the communication technology of the future. Similar…

— Alister E. McGrath

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the…

— John Howe