Army Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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 roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the…

— Stephan Kinsella

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

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

“As to the inventions of printing and of paper, we generally consider these in the wrong oredr, attributing too much importnace to printing and…

— Norbert Wiener

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Derrick de Kerckhove

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

— Ha-Joon Chang

“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

Doing research for 'Penumbra,' I read quite a bit about the early history of printing, and the more I did, the more it sounded…

— Robin Sloan

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

— James Russell Lowell