Books Quote by Neri Oxman

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

— Nate Silver

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 full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee…

— Harold Innis

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

“In Virginia, the printing press was deliberately restricted by the powers that be, to keep reading matter from the masses, while the aristocracy often…

— Thomas Sowell

Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England…

— John Adams

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

— Wendy Griswold

Books are humanity in print.

— Anonymous

Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief,…

— Tom Peters

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 all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

— Benjamin Franklin