Printing Quotes - Page 2

• The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Firsts, Immortality, Mistaken

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.230, University of Toronto Press

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• We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Book, Light, Supposing That

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• 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.

  Shelby Foote

  Book, Successful, Firsts

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• In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.

  James Nasmyth

  Brother, Machines, London

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.161, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Thinking, Order, Waiting

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• The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Information, Civil Rights

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.582

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• No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Writing, Discovery, Language

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.17

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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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Groups, Use, Individual

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

  George Orwell

  Doe, Want, Publicity

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• The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.”“In 20 or 30 years, you’ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.”“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment they can tolerate.”“The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don’t get collectively smarter, we’re doomed.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Writing, Keys, Hands

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• Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don't apologize for it. They don't hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they're proud of it... announcing that they 'saved civilization,' or some such claptrap.

  Bill Bonner

  Civilization, Brain, Proud

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• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Kings, Technology, Media

  "His Space". Interview with Spencer Reiss, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

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• I was interested in creating things that I could be proud of and so, you know, I was interested in being an editor of a magazine, things that I could be proud of, and so, you know, I was interested in being an editor of a magazine, but in order to be an editor of a magazine I had to become a publisher as well. I had to pay the bills. I had to worry about the printing and the paper manufacturing and the distribution of that magazine.

  Richard Branson

  Creating Things, Order, Editors

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• Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

  Peter Schiff

  Government, Printing Money, Citizens

  "Peering into the Abyss" by Peter Schiff, www.lewrockwell.com. March 29, 2009.

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• In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government bonds into fiat money, and the people lost over half of their monetary assets to the hidden tax of inflation. In the South, printing presses accomplished the same effect, and the monetary loss was total.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Loss, Government

  "The creature from Jekyll Island". Book by G. Edward Griffin, 1994.

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• 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, Invention

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

  Tony Hsieh

  Culture, Partners, Employee

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.97, Hachette UK

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• One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

  Lev Grossman

  Country, Writing, Practice

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• At Facebook, we're inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television - by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us closer together.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Communication, Technology, Voice

  "Mark Zuckerberg's Letter To Investors: 'The Hacker Way'". www.wired.com. February 1, 2012.

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• Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?

  Russell M. Nelson

  Explosions, Produce, Shops

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• 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.

  Phil Cooke

  Art, Horse, Hands

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• Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.

  Ben Bernanke

  Technology, Government, Numbers

  "Bernanke Goes Nuclear" by John Standerfer, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2009.

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• None of the problems that caused the crises in Europe and America have been resolved. They have been delayed and expanded by more debt and more money printing and will lead to more and worse crises.

  Bill Bonner

  Europe And America, Debt, Problem

  "Investment Legends: 'Dollar Collapse Inevitable'". Interview with Jeff Clark, www.caseyresearch.com. March 23, 2011.

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• The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

  James E. Burke

  Europe, Years, World

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• Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

  Peter Schiff

  Thinking, Printing Money, Circles

  "A Little Understanding Goes a Long Way" by Peter Schiff, www.businessinsider.com. March 7, 2011.

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