Competition Quote by Robin Sloan

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

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

— Victor Hugo

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

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

— Ha-Joon Chang

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art…

— Horace Mann

The newspaper industry when I came along in the mid-70s was rich and powerful and growing and hungry for material and open to new…

— Dave Barry

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

— George Orwell

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we…

— Neil Postman

“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 first ‘networked era’ followed the introduction of the printing press to Europe in the late fifteenth century and lasted until the end of…

— Niall Ferguson

“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

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout…

— Jimmy Wales