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Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be
to me in all events
a terrible thing without books. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print — Matthew Pearl

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

I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet. — Eric Swalwell

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

A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing — Louis I. Kahn

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually. — David Hockney

If we get a 3D printer at the office, the first thing I'm printing with it is a new 3D printer just for me! — The Covert Comic

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. — John Milton

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office! — Matthew Lesko

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. — E.F. Schumacher

3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed. — Peter Diamandis

Without the advent of printing, there would have been no Reformation, and there might well have been no Protestantism either. — Alister E. McGrath

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

The Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing errors. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers. — Ernest Hemingway,

The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press. — William Randolph Hearst

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

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation. — Leonard Baskin

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

Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary? — Russell M. Nelson

For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique. — Wolfgang Weingart

Printing with movable letters probably began in China in the middle of the twelfth century, but — Jack Weatherford

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

Some, like Lorne, who ran the Three Ps - the shop for paper, printing, and postage - went on as they had before. — Anne Bishop

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze. — Janet Fitch

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry. — George Bernard Shaw

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind. — Wendell Phillips

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. — Peter Schiff

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

Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown. — Neil Postman

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

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. — Dave Eggers

Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book, Mein Kampf! — Friedrich Kellner

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

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

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks. — Heather Brooke

This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press. — Sara Sheridan

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. — Horace Mann

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

Some want prayer in school, some want condoms.
Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody. — Marshall Fritz

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. — Robert Darnton

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

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed. — George Osborne

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. — Nathan Fillion

We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing. — Bre Pettis

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

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on. — Christian Marclay

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

The addition of the typewriter to the printing-press has given a new and horrible impetus to the spread of half-baked thought. — John Dos Passos

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

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press. — Fred W. Friendly

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. — George Orwell

To emancipate the mind is the great task which printing came into the world to perform. — Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation

The impact of television on our culture is ... indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing. — Carl Sandburg

I think that the tying of the Montenegrin economy with the euro is a much better option than the adventure of printing our own currency. — Igor Luksic

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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. — Walt Whitman

He kissed her, over and over, printing blood-flavored kisses on her cheek, her throat, her jaw, her mouth. — Lilith Saintcrow

If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man. — John Milton

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem. — Peter Thiel

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

3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made. — Hod Lipson

It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press! — Peter Schiff

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 Bureau Chiefs

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process. — Peter Diamandis

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there. — Dave Eggers

The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read. — Kevin Systrom

In this country any kind of printing was forbidden unless authorised. — Anna Funder

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking. — Nicholas G. Carr

The invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the noble on the field of battle; printing opened the same resources to the minds of all classes; — Alexis De Tocqueville

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

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution — Victor Hugo

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

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking. — Charles Bukowski

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that ... — Bob Dylan

Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. — Jane Jacobs

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

The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping. — Virginia Postrel

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments. — Beatrice Warde

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

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past. — Peter Sotos

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion. — Dudley Nichols

I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing. — Alice Waters

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

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost. — Thomas Jefferson

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

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. — Thomas Carlyle

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

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it. — Neil Postman

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

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of the modern commander. — T.E. Lawrence

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. — Douglas Engelbart

(The Germans invented gunpowder - all credit to them! but they again made things square - they invented printing.) — Friedrich Nietzsche

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