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The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.  (Printing Press Quotes) Paper money is made of cotton, and I’m long cotton, by the way. One reason I’m long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can  (Printing Press Quotes) Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes  (Printing Press Quotes) 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 people’s crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis  (Printing Press Quotes) The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective  (Printing Press Quotes) 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  (Printing Press Quotes) Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books  (Printing Press Quotes) 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  (Printing Press Quotes) Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion  (Printing Press Quotes) Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press  (Printing Press Quotes) It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press  (Printing Press Quotes) Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price  (Printing Press Quotes) What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind  (Printing Press Quotes) The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander  (Printing Press Quotes) On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity  (Printing Press Quotes) What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge  (Printing Press Quotes) We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking  (Printing Press Quotes) The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is  (Printing Press Quotes) On one side is the gigantic printing press, a miracle of fine articulation, which turns out the tabloid newspaper: on the other side are the contents of the tabloid itself, symbolically recording the most crude and elementary states of emotion  (Printing Press Quotes) When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would make reading and writing the infatuation of people who have no business reading and writing  (Printing Press Quotes) Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world’s champions  (Printing Press Quotes) A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this  (Printing Press Quotes) We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest  (Printing Press Quotes) 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  (Printing Press Quotes) Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals  (Printing Press Quotes) It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal  (Printing Press Quotes) To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now it’s the people who are taking control  (Printing Press Quotes) 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  (Printing Press Quotes) Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since  (Printing Press Quotes) People’s social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone  (Printing Press Quotes)
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