History Quote by The Bureau Chiefs

“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

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

— Peter Schiff

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

— George Orwell

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

— Derrick de Kerckhove

“Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this…

— Emil Ruder

“The exact same text was slightly different to read when viewed on the printed pages rather than on the word processor's screen. The feel…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— E. F. Schumacher

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries…

— Emil Ruder

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

— Bill Keller

“printed; by and by I will explain what printing is.”

— Mark Twain