Words matter. These are the best Printing Press Quotes from famous people such as Heather Brooke, Jules Verne, Howard Rheingold, Robert Darnton, Gary Locke, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.
Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity – gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?
You can’t have an industrial revolution, you can’t have democracies, you can’t have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.
The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.
China’s history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over.
If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books – it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that’s what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has opened up the monopoly over the interpretation of Islam that used to solely belong to the religious class.
The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther’s theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn’t circulated in the mainstream before.
As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn’t necessarily be good.
The government can’t create jobs; they’ll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn’t have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy.
Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange of ideas in the history of mankind.
