What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since 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.
Make your money make money: Buy a printing press and some blank currency paper.
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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.
This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.
What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The printing that takes place in North Korea today, for instance, is nothing more than propag...
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.
Herbie Stemple: [referring to television] That box is the biggest thing since Gutenberg invented the printing press, and I'm the biggest thing on it.
Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.
With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.
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.
In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in peopl...
By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American Bible Society owned 16 new state-of-the-art, steam-driven presses and 20 hand presses.
