Effects Quote by Noam Chomsky

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time,…

— Neri Oxman

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

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you…

— Nate Silver

“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

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

— Charles Evans Hughes

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

— Wendy Griswold

“The primary purposes of the political pamphlets of the early 1700s were neither to enlighten nor educate the masses, but to incite partisan conversation…

— Gavin John Adams

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing…

— Howard Rheingold

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons…

— Charles Evans Hughes

The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought

— Derrick de Kerckhove

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

— Victor Hugo