Quote by Nicholas Wade

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

“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

“Europe needed printing because it was bursting with creativity. New ideas in the arts and sciences, as well as in social justice and religion,…

— Mark Kurlansky

“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

“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

University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are…

— Francis Cornford

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

— Ernest Hemingway

“With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.”

— The Bureau Chiefs

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

— Bill Keller

It's interesting to see the lament of each generation overwhelmed by the next new tool. I can show you passages from scholars of Germany…

— Paul Saffo

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

— E. F. Schumacher

It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press!

— Peter Schiff