Better Quote by Umberto Eco

“the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved”

— Umberto Eco

“The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.”

— Umberto Eco

“Like the button, the wheelbarrow, the spoon and the umbrella, the printed book is one of the truly great inventions of mankind - beautifully…

— William Boyd

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers…

— James Gleick

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

— Nick Hornby

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

— Anonymous

“A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole…

— Philip Pullman

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

— David Macaulay

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

— Charles Lamb

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

— Nicholas G. Carr