Printing press Quote by Thomas Sowell

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

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

— Nate Silver

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

“I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read…

— D.H. Lawrence

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

— Wendy Griswold

“​It is Obscene to keep Printing Newspapers in the Digital Era”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

“From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire…

— John Updike

“The library was one of the few places approved by my mother. I must have read almost every book in that place, living a…

— Skye Warren

“To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value…

— Virginia Woolf

The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee…

— Harold Innis

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of…

— Edward Bellamy

“What we face is not a loss of books but the loss of a world. As in Alexandria after Aristotle’s time, or the universities…

— Matthew Battles