So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Images proliferate. Am I wrong in being reminded of printing money in a period of wild inflation? Do we know what we are doing? Are we able to evaluate what we have done?
I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U. S.
At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.
The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.
Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press.
There is more Bible buying, Bible selling, Bible printing and Bible distributing than ever before in our nation. We see Bibles in every bookstore - Bibles of every size, price and style. There are Bibles in almost every house in the land. But all this time I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but toward less. . . We have surrendered the unfolding of a new technological age to a small elite who have seized the capability on offer. But while Renaissance kings maintained their monopoly over the printing press by force, today's elite is depending on little more than our own disinterest.
I remember how difficult it was to perform certain operations on gelatine prints. A few weeks ago I asked my gelatine printer at Picto, "Can you make just the shadows a little bit brighter?" He gave me a very strange look because in Photoshop you just turn a button, and we're used to that now, but it is totally impossible in gelatine silver printing.
If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
