Printing famous quotes

The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.
-- Agnes Strickland

#Printing #Instruments #Printing Press

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.
-- Alan Sugar

#People #Want #Printing

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.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Information #Printing #Century

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Gentleman #Printing

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
-- Bill Keller

#Technology #Printing #Printing Press

If printing money helped the economy, then counterfeiting should be legal
-- Brian Wesbury

#Economy #Printing #Should

They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like it.
-- C.E. Murphy

#Book #Firsts #Printing

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.
-- Clay Shirky

#Years #Sacred #Printing

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
-- Ezra Pound

#Literature #Pay #Printing

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
-- Ha-Joon Chang

#Important #Events #Printing

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Years #Printing #Century

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Skins #Printing #Skin Deep

It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.
-- James Russell Lowell

#Legs #Rooms #Printing

Ink is the blood of the printing-press.
-- John Milton

#Blood #Ink #Printing

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.
-- John Quincy Adams

#Printing #Should #Freedom Of The Press

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
-- Jojo Moyes

#Mean #Complicated #Printing

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.
-- Lee Child

#Government #Printing #Currency

What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.
-- Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#Book #Shipping #Printing

How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.
-- Marina Tsvetaeva

#Writing #Quiet #Printing

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.
-- Mila Kunis

#Bullying #Printing #Accusation

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
-- Nate Silver

#Book #Luxury #Printing

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.
-- Nate Silver

#Ideas #Printing #Luther

All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too much money.
-- Peter Schiff

#Too Much #Commodity #Printing

Many trees could be saved if the government stopped printing tax forms.
-- Sam Ewing

#Government #Tree #Printing

You will never solve the American problems just by printing money.
-- Sebastian Pinera

#Problem #Printing #Solve

Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.
-- Spiro T. Agnew

#Media #Garbage #Printing

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
-- T. E. Lawrence

#Weapons #Modern #Printing

Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
-- Tony Hsieh

#Culture #Printing #Partners

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.
-- Trip Hawkins

#Way #Historic #Printing

Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.
-- Craig Owens

#Links #Photograph #Printing

First book was handwritten, then the printing press, now we've got our Kindles. To be able to push a button and a dictionary comes up. And then, at my age, that I can make the letters any size I want, and that I can carry all of William Shakespeare, all of Gogol, all of Franz Kafka in my handbag? You've got to love it.
-- Lore Segal

#Book #Age #Printing

Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.
-- Michael Sweet

#Printing #Poor #Unix

Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press.
-- Vivian Schiller

#Media #Journalism #Printing

The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought
-- Derrick de Kerckhove

#Thinking #Way #Printing